Catholic Paper Calls JD Vance a Moral Stain for ICE Victim Smear
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A leading Catholic paper has branded JD Vance a “moral stain” and accused the vice president of having a “twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity” for his comments on a woman killed by ICE.
Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, was shot three times in her car by a federal officer carrying out immigration raids on Jan. 7. Vance, 41, who identifies as Catholic, has since joined the government’s push to brand Good a “domestic terrorist” who tried to run the officer over, calling her death “a tragedy of her own making.”
In a blistering op-ed column on Thursday, the National Catholic Reporter accused Vance of “justifying” Good’s killing, saying his comments are “a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith.”
The outlet’s digital editor John Grosso wrote: “In times past, a politician might offer thoughts and prayers, encourage those reacting to wait for the full results of the investigation and generally try to lower the temperature. A leader might take the opportunity provided by a fresh day to soothe the broken heart of a nation.“
But, Grosso added, “JD Vance went in a different direction.”
Good, 37, a U.S. citizen, was killed when an ICE officer fired into her SUV on a residential street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Multiple videos show agents shouting conflicting orders at her before one officer moved toward the driver’s door and another stood in front of the vehicle and opened fire as it rolled forward.
The Trump administration quickly framed the killing as an “act of domestic terrorism,” with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem alleging that Good had “weaponized her vehicle” and Trump claiming she “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.” Local officials who reviewed the footage, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have called that version of events “garbage.”
Undeterred, Vance went even further. In posts on X and in a White House briefing, he argued that Good’s death was “a tragedy of her own making” and that she was part of “a broader left-wing network to attack” ICE officers.
In response, Grosso wrote: “As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.
But, Grosso added, “He doesn’t care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes.”
Suggesting that Vance’s Catholicism “seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power,” Grosso said: “The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.”
The critique is part of the latest episode in the long-running tension between Vance and the Vatican over the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown. In 2025, Pope Francis skipped an official meeting with Vance at the Vatican, sending Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin instead to deliver a lecture on compassion and migrant rights, before granting the vice president only a brief Easter greeting the next day.
Francis’ final months were marked by increasingly sharp rebukes of Trump-era mass deportations, which he called a “disgrace” and “not Christian,” and by a behind-closed-doors dressing-down of Vance over the White House’s treatment of migrants shortly before the pontiff died at 88.
His successor, Pope Leo XIV, 69, has also seemed to distance himself from the Trump immigration agenda. When Vance led the U.S. delegation to Leo’s inaugural Mass in Rome last year, the new pope greeted him briefly in public but held private meetings that day with Ukraine’s president and Peru’s president instead.
A longer sit-down with Vance followed a day later, but the Vatican’s statement on it emphasized humanitarian concerns and “current international issues,” which was interpreted as a subtle signal of disagreement.
Outside Rome, Catholic criticism of the administration’s immigration campaign has intensified. An essay on the Letters From Leo website this week declared that Trump’s renewed crackdown—“championed by our nominally Catholic Vice President JD Vance”—has “inflicted mounting inhumanity,” and said the policies have drawn “scathing rebukes from two popes and the vast majority of bishops.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Vance’s office for comment.
JD Vance is so unlikeable that it killed Pope Francis.
Never forget.
Died immediately of cringe
Still not as big of a stain as the one he left on Erika Kirk's couch last night!
And Jesus wept
Those weren't tearstains.
I saw the video of Vance berating Good and fanning the flames of the fire. The way he speaks appears strong to people who can't think for themselves, and who lack their own moral compass. Truly a nation of weak, heartless automotons we've found ourselves amongst.
He should be excommunicated.
We should start an excommunication petition
Ask and you shall receive
https://c.org/s9HJyLG8DG
Shocker, the man that murdered the Pope isn't a very good Christian. Who'd have guessed?
Seriously will never be convinced he didn't play some part in his death (and not just by being such an awful person it made the pope decide it was time to peace out and go home).
You can't be apart of the Trump administration and not have moral failings. They even make you prove from time to time.
JD Vance has no chance.
Shit stained soul and shit stained pants.
“The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel.
How appropriate JD Vance would attempt to make such a shitty legal and moral argument. I wonder who God would side with in the case of Good vs Evil.
First I thought, wouldn't it be Good vs. Ross? Then I realized you didn't mean to refer to her last name in this case. I kind of like the thought of using her last name to play up the comparison, regardless!
Considering there hasnt been a rain of brimstone, or assholes turning to pillars of salt, or anything else of the sort.. Suggests that, if a god so did exist, he absolutely does not care about their actions at the very best.
I mean to each their own, but if you do believe in a God, you might also know historical and most religious texts are full of very similar stories of seemingly undefeatable evil and oppressive rulers and empires reigning supreme over large numbers of people for generations until the day they just suddenly didn't.
For me personally, if anything, it has kind of rekindled and helped me better understand my own faith, and as an adult, I've stumbled across numerous passages in the bible that almost seem to be a warning about this exact scenario. False prophets, hypocrisy, and men who use their positions of power and influence to spread a false message in the name of Jesus in order to deceive oppressed people, keep them from resisting oppression, and gaslight them into believing their oppression is a necessary part of God's larger plan. As if these individuals were actually chosen by God to commit these horrific acts, and anyone who isn't loyal to their leadership somehow also isn't being loyal to God.
That dumbass Pete Hegseth actually recently quoted one of those warnings (Matthew 10:34) in an attempt to claim his thirst for destruction and violence is simply a manifestation of Jesus acting through him to spread his message... Except, he missed the entire point of the passage he quoted by about a million fucking miles.
When Jesus says he brings a message of the sword not one of peace, he's using a metaphor to describe the divisiveness of the message (the sword) he preached. When you read the entire passage in context, then try to depict Jesus as a violent warrior with a sword ready to go to war, you're literally arguing that Jesus was telling children to kill anyone that disagrees with them including their own parents... If that doesn't sound like something Jesus would say, it's because he definitely wasn't trying to say that. Like many parts of the Bible and other ancient texts, it was obviously meant to be a figure of speech. He was explaining that the true message of Christianity can often be a divisive one, even for the people you consider your closest friends and family.
When we hear the blasphemous messages about "toxic empathy," being spread by this administration to justify tearing immigrant families apart by kidnapping and deporting them, because somehow they simply don't belong in a nation controlled by the descendants of immigrants, actively protecting wealthy pedophiles and rapists from justice, celebrating the attack and invasion of smaller and weaker sovereign country in order to kidnap and forcefully bring a dictator and his wife into our country (while denying justice to the people he actually harmed in his own country and continuing to deport the families we kidnapped and tore apart), all just to seize what resources that country does have in and make the most wealthy American corporations even more wealthy while still refusing to provide healthcare, housing, and other basic needs to Americans citizens, and even the murder of a mother who made the fatal mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not simply bowing before the mighty army of the King when they invaded her home while welding their "absolute immunity" (not to mention the monetization of these fucked up messages via constant exploitation in the name of one of the most famous "SJWs"), we quite literally (not metaphorically) are all collectively witnessing how hard a pill to swallow Christianity is for the people who profit in his name while refusing to respect or follow the word of Christ.
Sorry for beating a dead horse, but these cowardly fascists hiding behind Christianity to spread their hate gets me a bit riled up. Even if you didn't grow up from birth to 18 immersed in the often dark and hypocritical world of southern evangelical Christianity, (then come out the other side very jaded only to realize that in spite of everything they tried to brainwash you into believing, your faith was never lost, it was what was guiding you to resist the whole time), you probably still understand that Jesus would be fucking pissed and flipping tables if he caught a glimpse of One America or Fox News right now, just like anyone with a shred of decency and critical thinking skills should be.
The passage Hegseth chose to quote as "secretary of war," is actually particularly relevant when it comes to contrasting the hypocrisy of the Christian Nationalist movement with what Jesus actually says in the same book (The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:35-40), are the 2 most important commandments to remember and follow even if you take away nothing else from the Bible (practicing empathy and loving your neighbor as a sign of your own love and respect for God and his creations).
Tldr: Hegseth quoted what he thought sounded like a badass hypermasc message of Jesus advocating war, not realizing he's the guy Jesus was trying to warn you about in the message he quoted.
They took until now to notice what he is? My goodness, don't they have eyes and ears in the US?
Well no, as the article says he's already been admonished by two popes but if he's going to keep doing heinous stuff while claiming to be catholic they've sort of got to keep calling him out.
Time for excommunication
That'll teach him (that he can keep spitting in their faces). How many cheeks can you turn?
Moral stain? More like a shit stain.
Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.”
Thoughts and prayers.
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does itprofit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Talk is cheap. Walk the walk.
Certainly is responsible for a lot of upholstery stains
The writer says "Vance knows that only God can take life."
That means that God took the victim's life, not the ICE officer.
Such a goofy religion. Fortunately, it's TAX FREE, so we all can pay for it! Yay!
Gotta try hard to out-shitstain the Catholic Church. JD might manage it, but it'll be an uphill battle.
We Catholics take a lot of well earned crap for a lot of people for a lot of things we did over the millennia.
But people often forget that a not insignificant percentage of Saints became saints being murdered for standing up to the church for the dumb shit they were pushing.
Virtue signalling. If it's in their interest the Catholic church would fall in line in the blink of an eye.