{"id":1147,"date":"2026-04-15T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/vance-heckled-while-criticizing-pope-leo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:41:38","slug":"vance-heckled-while-criticizing-pope-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=1147&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Vance Heckled While Criticizing Pope Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Vice President JD Vance publicly criticized Pope Leo, following the pontiff&#8217;s recent public disagreements with Donald Trump regarding the conflict in Iran. During a Turning Point USA event in Georgia, Vance admonished Pope Leo to &#8220;be careful when he talks about matters of theology,&#8221; prompting a heckler in the audience to shout. Pope Leo, who is the first American Pope, has consistently condemned the war in Iran, describing its consequences as &#8220;absurd and inhuman violence.&#8221; On Monday, the Pope affirmed his resolve, stating he has &#8220;no fear&#8221; of the Trump administration and will continue &#8220;speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.&#8221; #JDVance #PopeLeo #DonaldTrump #IranWar #TurningPointUSA #USPolitics #ReligiousLeaders #TheologyDebate #FreedomOfSpeech #PoliticalHeckling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Vice President JD Vance publicly criticized Pope Leo, following the pontiff&#8217;s recent public disagreements with Donald Trump regarding the conflict in Iran. During a Turning Point USA event in Georgia, Vance admonished Pope Leo to &#8220;be careful when he talks about matters of theology,&#8221; prompting a heckler in the audience to shout. Pope Leo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}