Because we all know who is sitting in the room where the evangelical pastors gathered to lay hands on Donald Trump and bless an unauthorized war that has killed more than 1,300 Iranian civilians — including school children — and 13 American soldiers.
We all know who flew to Rome, personally invited the Pope to America’s 250th anniversary celebration, and was turned down flat.
That’s JD Vance. Self-described devout Catholic. The man who stood at a Turning Point rally and declared America “will always be a Christian nation.”
The man who twisted Catholic theology to justify mass deportations — and was publicly corrected by Pope Leo before he was even pope, when he reposted: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
This is Christian Nationalism. It borrows the language of faith to bless things Jesus never would have blessed. It puts evangelical pastors in the Oval Office to pray over a war that Congress never authorized. It sends a Catholic vice president to Rome to court a pope who has already said, publicly, that he is wrong.
Pope Leo called it out directly: “War is not holy; only peace is holy.”
That is what moral leadership looks like. But you won’t find much of it in Congress right now.
We’re going to change that.
It’s the difference between a Common Good candidate and MAGA, and why we’re working so hard to elect good, moral leaders.
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