Afew hours before he and Donald Trump ambushed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, J. D. Vance was the featured speaker at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington. His address was an uninspiring mishmash, as might be expected on such an occasion: generalities and blandishments, obligatory praise for pro-life protestors and factually challenged statements about their “persecution,” solemn promises to listen to the American people, and a personal story about his seven-year-old son choosing “to be baptized in the Christian faith the week after we won the election.” He also prayed for Pope Francis and called him “a great pastor…a man who can speak the truth of the faith in a very profound way at a moment of great crisis.”
Some of Vance’s other comments were more revealing, at least to me.
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