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BREAKING: J.D. Vance is confronted after Trump's Pentagon threatened Pope Leo with the U.S. military during a disastrous meeting — and promptly dissolves into a stuttering mess.
This so-called Catholic is sweating bullets now...
"X has been abuzz the last couple of days with the Free Press story saying that senior Pentagon officials in January, including Elbridge Colby, brought Cardinal Pierre into the Pentagon," a reporter asked Vance.
"Brought who?" Vance asked with a look of slack canine befuddlement on his face.
"Cardinal Christophe Pierre, into the Pentagon," the reporter said.
"Okay. I haven't seen this story, unfortunately," claimed Vance.
"Essentially, the reporting by the Free Press is that they told him that the American military has a lot of might and they can do whatever they want and the church should get on its side," said the reporter. "Does that message sound correct to you? Is that something you would sign off on?"
"So one I— I— With no disrespect to the Cardinal, I don't know who Cardinal Christophe Pierre is," said Vance.
"He's the Ambassador to the Holy See in the U.S." said the reporter.
While Pierre was indeed ambassador when the disastrous Pentagon meeting took place, he has since resigned due to old age and been replaced by Archbishop Gabriele Caccia.
"Oh, okay, okay. I do— I've— I've met him before," stuttered Vance. "Sorry, I just didn't remember the name. I've never seen this reporting. I'd like to actually talk to Cardinal Christophe Pierre and frankly to our people to figure out what actually happened. I think it's always a bad idea to offer an opinion on stories that are unconfirmed and uncorroborated, so I'm not going to do that."
The report in question revealed that Pierre was summoned to a meeting at the Pentagon during which Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby and other Trump officials berated the Vatican's ambassador over Leo's criticisms of Trump's brutish foreign policy.
At one point, a Trump official invoked the Avignon Papacy, a period in the 14th century during which the French King used his military to force the pope to live in Avignon, France, exerting direct state control over the papacy. It's considered a dark, humiliating period in Vatican history and it appears that the Trump administration was implying a similiar captivity could happen in 2026.
Catholic writer Christopher Hale of the "Letters from Leo" substack has independently confirmed that the meeting took place and stated that "the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year."
"Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See," added Hale.
The meeting went so poorly that one Vatican official told The Free Press, “The Pope may well never visit the United States under this administration.”
If Vance were a genuine Catholic instead of just someone roleplaying as one to cultivate a traditionalist aesthetic, he'd be horrified by this story. This is a man who constantly talks about his adult conversion to Catholicism. He's even publishing a book on that supposed faith journey (which ironically has a Methodist church on the cover).
Of course, it's unlikely that Vance believes in God at all. He believes in nothing. He's a nihilistic opportunist who has thrown his lot in with a genocidal fascist in the hopes that he might one day become president. It falls to all of us to ensure that that never happens.
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