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Vice President JD Vance was heckled at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Ga. while discussing Pope Leo XIV and his recent comments regarding the Trump administration. While speaking at the event on Tuesday, April 14, Vance, 41, who converted to Catholicism as an adult, insisted that the first American pope should “be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”

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00:00I'd almost rather have the conversation, so I kind of like, even when there's disagreement,
00:05I like it when the Pope comments on questions of immigration. I like it when the Pope talks about
00:10abortion. I like it when the Pope talks about matters of war and peace, because I think that
00:15at the very least, it invites a conversation. I certainly think the answer is yes, and I agree.
00:20Jesus Christ does not, I agree. Jesus Christ certainly does not support genocide. Whoever
00:24yelled that out from the dark, he certainly does not. I think that's pretty easy. I think
00:29that's a pretty easy principle. When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those
00:36who wield the sword, there is a thousand year, more than a thousand year tradition of just
00:41war theory, okay? Now, we can, of course, have disagreements about whether this or that conflict
00:46is just, but I think that it's important, in the same way that it's important for the Vice
00:50President of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy,
00:54I think it's very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters
00:59of theology.
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