When the Pope says, “Stop by my office.”

90 days.

Huh… AP News in the room. Not yet allowed again, in the White House press briefing room. More silly nonsense to end.

Best Pope yet? Perhaps. From the perspective of a woman respectful of the office of the Vatican, an admitted non Christian. The head of the Christian Church, clearly rocks for sending JD the equivalent of a note from heaven to ‘straighten your self out’, and fly if not ‘right’, then with more compassion. Who signed the note? I think he got the message 3-0. Holy trinity against JV the JD VP. OY.

Just weeks ago the world waited, wondering fretfully if Pope Francis was staying or going to his reward. With steady improvement he rallied from life threatening pneumonia. A heavy lift for any man of 88 years. He received a large percentage of actual thoughts and prayers which never hurts.

After his meet with the Vatican’s number two on Saturday, Vance told the Pope “I know you have not been feeling great, but it’s good to see you in better health, thank you for seeing me.”

Prior to an audience with the Pope who is working a reduced schedule, JD was cleared, to be received by the Pontiff who was allowed to skip Elon’s report thing. Cleared for a reduction in productivity. Rather than the compulsory five solid wins on his weekly work report showing his productivity and most importantly, worth.

Vance was asked to and he “met Saturday with the Vatican’s No. 2 official amid tensions over the U.S. crackdown on migrants, with the Holy See reaffirming good relations but noting “an exchange of opinions” over current international conflicts, migrants and prisoners.”

Of Saturday’s meet, “Vance’s office said he and Parolin “discussed their shared religious faith, Catholicism in the United States, the plight of persecuted Christian communities around the world, and President Trump’s commitment to restoring world peace.”’

The Vatican treads, floats over troubles lightly. Praying to inspire, a nudge rather than use a lightning bolt. Chocolate bunnies were handed to Vance for his children on his Sunday meet. And something for the adults, rosary and a Vatican tie. I’m sure he thought the gifts were loser gifts with better quality available in not the tourist gift shop. Gifte Shoppe?

Pretty sure he learned goose egg from his time at the Vatican.

The article goes on to tell how he chose to become a traditional Catholic in about 2019.

Vance, is a Catholic now. Reported to have converted.

He said, “I really liked that the Catholic Church was just really old.”

He continued to tell of his thoughtful process in the article. His deep dive into the religion prior to his conversion from what prior commitment, it’s very unclear.

…”he had come to Catholicism in part because of the writings of Saint Augustine. “Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way,” Vance said. “As someone who spent a lot of his life buying into the lie that you had to be stupid to be a Christian, Augustine really demonstrated in a moving way that that’s not true.”

He’s despised for comments such as this. The quality of insult within every utterance must be natural. One can’t be schooled, can you?

From our modern Mark Twain on Abrego Garcia -

John is a warrior for the Christian religion against the National Evangelical stuff with false quotes and those that “use” the words written in ancient times not to inspire but to marginalize, insult, kidnap, punish to their death as in the innocent enough taken to El Salvador. They will be returned by Wednesday or Judge Boesberg will be getting the names of irresponsible ones that said - “Good to go! Take off.” In spite of his order to stay put.

What trump and Vance are doing is inhumane. What has been happening at the southern boarder has been inhumane. The Republican party has used the boarder and the people don’t deserve ‘razor wire’. What’s this deserving thing? Stop it.

Getting in the spirit of the day,…

And then there’s the classic Easter nod to the god of sweet treats. I nabbed this one from Julian Lennon, John’s son. I hope that makes it extra cute.

Consequence of 4/20?

And lastly, a few sentiments from yesterdays protests.

Thanks for being here. I wouldn’t be here without you.

❤️