While on a trip to Italy last week with his family, Vice President Vance visited with Pope Francis. In fact, he was one of the last officials to meet with Pope Francis prior to his death.
I am not Catholic and don't spend a lot of time following what happens in the Catholic church but as a casual observer it seems to me that Pope Francis was a pretty liberal pope. The last two popes prior to Pope Francis had turned away from and denounced "liberation theology." While not exactly embracing it, Pope Francis was much more friendly to it.
Pope Francis also often criticized the Trump policy toward immigration but without mentioning Trump by name. He was also tolerant of homosexuality.
J. D. Vance was raised as an evangelical and converted to Catholicism in 2019 when he was 35-year-old. He was drawn to the church teachings on family and social order and its desire to instill virtue in modern society. Could J. D. Vance have held resentment toward the pope for moving the Church away from these core values that led to Vance's conversion. Could he have been angry at the Pope for attempted to derail the Trump agenda? Just asking.
While I am not endorsing a theory that suggest J. D. Vance killed the pope, if one did advance such a theory it would seem to be as plausible as other popular conspiracy theories. Surely this theory has as much to recommend it as Chemtrails, as 9-11-was-an-inside-job, as the moon landing was faked, as the CIA killed Kennedy, as the government bombed the levees and caused the flooding or New Orleans, or that the 2020 election was stolen.
If anyone can make a case that the 2020 election was stolen, surely, they can make the case that J.D. Vance killed the pope.
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