CONSISTENCY AND INCONSISTENCY—THE POPE FRANCIS PROBLEM

 Crux has a balanced commentary on Pope Francis rebukes of the non Catholic Trump and Catholic Vance. 

Read the FULL article HERE.

Here’s the best part:

For a pope to challenge the President of the United States so openly – and so early after his inauguration – is not merely remarkable. In reality, it is a seismic shift – and it only took 22 days from Trump’s inauguration.

Francis is already being challenged on two levels.

First, significant voices are asking why Trump gets a rebuke while other world leaders get a free pass.

Catholic scholar Samuel Gregg said, “In itself the pope’s statement about America and immigration is unobjectionable,” but added Francis “has a serious consistency problem.”

“For example,” Gregg wrote on X, “[Francis] has said nothing about the persecution of Catholics and other believers in Communist China, and has done a shameful deal with a totalitarian regime that has yielded nothing. Yet there is no letter to the bishops of China talking about the evil they have to confront every single day.”

Gregg also said Francis “regularly soft pedals any criticism of leftist regimes in Latin America and instead talks endlessly about dialogue,” and “did not single out the Biden administration for aggressively pushing abortion and the trans madness on the world,” a reference to Trump’s predecessor in office.