{"id":804,"date":"2026-04-15T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/vance-heckled-amid-criticism-of-pope-leo-over-iran-war-stance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:34:52","slug":"vance-heckled-amid-criticism-of-pope-leo-over-iran-war-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=804&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Vance Heckled Amid Criticism of Pope Leo Over Iran War Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice-President JD Vance was heckled during a recent event in Georgia as he publicly admonished Pope Leo. The incident occurred at a Turning Point USA gathering, where Vance cautioned the pontiff to &#8220;be careful when he talks about matters of theology.&#8221; This public criticism follows Pope Leo&#8217;s ongoing public disagreements with Donald Trump concerning the war in Iran. Pope Leo, notably the first American Pope, has been a vocal critic of the conflict, describing its consequences as &#8220;absurd and inhuman violence.&#8221; Responding to potential political pressure, the Pope declared on Monday that he has &#8220;no fear&#8221; of the Trump administration and remains committed to &#8220;speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.&#8221;<br \/>\n#JDVance #PopeLeo #IranWar #USPolitics #Vatican #DonaldTrump #TurningPointUSA #ReligiousFreedom #PoliticalCommentary #ChurchAndState<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice-President JD Vance was heckled during a recent event in Georgia as he publicly admonished Pope Leo. The incident occurred at a Turning Point USA gathering, where Vance cautioned the pontiff to &#8220;be careful when he talks about matters of theology.&#8221; This public criticism follows Pope Leo&#8217;s ongoing public disagreements with Donald Trump concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","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\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}