JD Vance Draws Damning Moral Rebuke From Catholic Newspaper: 'MAGA Over Jesus'

The vice president's "cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be repudiated by people of faith," the op-ed read.

Vice President JD Vance was accused of choosing “MAGA over Jesus” in a damning op-ed published by the National Catholic Reporter this week.

In the opinion piece, the Catholic newspaper’s digital editor John Grosso rebuked Vance’s inflammatory and politicizing response to the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by an ICE agent in Minneapolis at the weekend.

Read the full op-ed on the National Catholic Reporter.

Vance, said Grosso, had “the opportunity to call for peace and unity — to lower the temperature of the situation and express empathy with those suffering and mourning” and “could have chosen to share the Gospel message of healing and human dignity” but “instead, he chose to offer the MAGA message of division and blame.”

The comments of Vance, a Catholic convert, are “a moral stain on our collective witness of Catholicism,” said Grosso. But “they are no longer surprising,” he argued. “Given its scandal, the vice president’s cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be repudiated by people of faith.”