Father James Martin, SJ, who is the editor-at-large of America Magazine and also works with the Vatican News Dicastery for Communication, publicly criticized the Vice President after he tried to use Catholic teachings in a strange way to support anti-immigration attitudes.
On a show hosted by right-wing Michael Knowles, JD Vance complained about people putting up signs in their yards that say, “In this house we believe…” followed by a lot of repeated words.
He said things like “love is love, science is science, whatever.No person is illegal,” and called those signs a “butchering of the Nicene Creed.”
That’s a lot of talk for someone who just turned Catholic yesterday, and again, it’s all just nonsense.
Father Martin responded politely on Twitter, saying, “It’s hard to know what to make of the Vice President’s bizarre, almost nonsensical, comments here.
It sounds like he is equating the use of these ‘hideous signs’ to an alternative version of the Nicene Creed.”
“The Nicene Creed, written by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, is a key statement of faith used by the Catholic Church and other churches.
It’s a declaration of belief, mostly about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.It obviously doesn’t mention ‘hideous signs’ welcoming people.”
“It’s ironic, then, that the Vice President is mocking things like love and the church’s teaching on migrants while at the same time professing his faith through the words of the Creed, which includes belief in the authority of the church.
Because this ‘one, holy, catholic and apostolic’ church has long proclaimed the message of love and care for the stranger, which Jesus himself preached during his public ministry.”
“So, a butchering of the Creed would mean not listening to the church’s teaching on these matters and, even worse, not listening to Jesus’s own teaching on love and loving the stranger.”
“Because, in the words of the Creed, we also believe in ‘one Lord, Jesus Christ.'”
Father Martin clearly saw through JD Vance’s schemes.
He’s a shallow, self-serving person who doesn’t really believe in religion and will always try to twist or use Jesus’s message to support his bigoted views.
Calling him out was the right thing to do, and JD Vance should be ashamed for trying to use his religion to spread anti-immigrant hatred—unless, of course, he’s just a puppet created by Peter Thiel in a lab to serve the interests of billionaires.
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