JD Vance last year accused the U.S. Catholic bishops of only caring about immigrants for the money in it. Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, the recently retired archbishop of New York, called it “scurrilous” slander at the time. In an interview with EWTN in recent days, Dolan said that Vance has since apologized to him. The vice president should probably repeat it publicly at the next Catholic event he headlines. (Hopefully Vance won’t berate Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky right after, as he did with the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast last year.)
If Vance had made the case, as a still relatively new Catholic, that maybe the bishops should not be taking government money because it inevitably involves compromise — or worse — and, well, many in these parts have over the years. But hubris doesn’t simply make suggestions.
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