There’s a new pope in town, and it took mere moments for the internet faithful to find what appears to be his social media account.
Judging from the content he’s shared, Pope Leo XIV and Vice President JD Vance — an adult convert to Catholicism — might have a few disagreements. The 69-year-old pope hails from Chicago and is the first U.S. leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
On Feb. 3, Pope Leo ― then Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ― shared an opinion piece, “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
“When it comes to something being ‘biblical,’ we have to be careful,” cautions Kat Armas in the piece. “Nearly anything can be found in Scripture if you’re looking for it — stories of war, oppression, miracles and love, all written by people grappling with what it meant to be faithful. The Bible is not a rigid manual but a living testimony of human wrestlings with the divine.”
Another post in Pope Leo’s feed includes criticism of President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, where they laughed at the circumstances of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who Trump mistakenly sent to a prison there.
Leo retweeted the post, which included the quote: “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?”
