(LifeSiteNews) — Video footage has resurfaced of J.D. Vance [see video below] briefly criticizing Pope Francis’s crackdown on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) during a 2021 Napa Institute virtual conference.
Responding to a question by conference host Brian Burch about the challenges confronting Catholics (viewable in the video below at 13:50), Vance emphasized that today many of the faithful struggle with handling internal disputes like the TLM restrictions, noting that while he’s not an avid attendee of the Latin Mass, he thinks barring its celebration is wrong. The July 2021 conference was held during Vance’s 2022 senate campaign and shortly after the Vatican issued Traditionis Custodes.
“I think that one of the problems that we have is that we’re not totally sure how to deal with what should be internal family disputes within the Catholic Church in a world of social media. One of the things that I’m just not totally sure how to deal with as a public figure who sometimes does disagree and agree too with the Holy Father on some core issues is what is my role? Especially as a new Catholic, a Catholic who has some public voice. Like what should I do when, for example, the Pope issues an order on the Latin Mass that I think is not the right order for the Church? Even though I’m not a big Latin Mass guy, it felt wrong,” Vance said at the conference.
