Converts Clap Back at CNN Priest’s ‘Anti-Catholic’ Dismissal of JD Vance

[Michie]

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal of Vance’s views based on the vice president’s relative newness to Catholicism.

Converts to Catholicism are clapping back after a priest made televised remarks dismissing JD Vance’s theological views because the vice president has been Catholic “only for six years.”

Responding to comments made by Passionist Father Edward Beck on CNN on Feb. 12, several Catholic converts, including academics, priests and journalists, took to social media to express their disdain for what they saw as a broader disparagement of those who enter the Church as adults.

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The tone he uses in talking of VP Vance as a convert (‘only six years!’) is the reveal here,” said Carl Olson, editor of Catholic World Report, on X (formerly Twitter). “The hatred of converts — which I’ve seen and experienced far too much of — is not only bizarre, it is anti-Catholic.”

Father Beck, a regular CNN contributor known for his liberal views, was speaking during a panel discussion about Vance’s comments about the ordo amoris, a theological concept developed by St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Converts Clap Back at CNN Priest’s ‘Anti-Catholic’ Dismissal of JD Vance

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal of Vance’s views based on the vice president’s relative newness to Catholicism.

www.ncregister.com

 

[chevyontheriver]

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal of Vance’s views based on the vice president’s relative newness to Catholicism.

Converts to Catholicism are clapping back after a priest made televised remarks dismissing JD Vance’s theological views because the vice president has been Catholic “only for six years.”

Responding to comments made by Passionist Father Edward Beck on CNN on Feb. 12, several Catholic converts, including academics, priests and journalists, took to social media to express their disdain for what they saw as a broader disparagement of those who enter the Church as adults.

“
The tone he uses in talking of VP Vance as a convert (‘only six years!’) is the reveal here,” said Carl Olson, editor of Catholic World Report, on X (formerly Twitter). “The hatred of converts — which I’ve seen and experienced far too much of — is not only bizarre, it is anti-Catholic.”

Father Beck, a regular CNN contributor known for his liberal views, was speaking during a panel discussion about Vance’s comments about the ordo amoris, a theological concept developed by St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Converts Clap Back at CNN Priest’s ‘Anti-Catholic’ Dismissal of JD Vance

Converts and other Catholics took issue with the celebrity priest’s perceived dismissal of Vance’s views based on the vice president’s relative newness to Catholicism.

www.ncregister.com

Not a convert myself but converts quite often have a better grasp of the faith than the lifers. This is one of those cases.

 

[Praying Rose]

What would our parishes look like without converts? People vote with their tithes and their feet. I don't think this is a road they should continue down.

 

[Michie]

What would our parishes look like without converts? People vote with their tithes and their feet. I don't think this is a road they should continue down.

Agreed and thank you.

 

[Gnarwhal]

I feel like I can't speak as a convert. But I still think Vance crushed it and that Fr Beck is flat wrong. I've been warned about Passionists.

 

[Michie]

I liked Father Longenecker’s comment.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I liked Father Longenecker’s comment.

But he is a convert himself.

If you get down to it we are all either converts or descendants of converts unless we can claim a Jewish ancestry from the original disciples.

 

[Michie]

But he is a convert himself.

If you get down to it we are all either converts or descendants of converts unless we can claim a Jewish ancestry from the original disciples.

He’s been a Catholic for 30 years now. His comment if it was okay for him to speak or share an opinion gave me a giggle.

 

[Michie]

Seems to be somewhat of a caste system going in here imo.

 

[Michie]

I was thinking of Scott Hahn tonight….

 

[Wolseley]

Well, it's not how long you've been a Catholic, it's how seriously you take it that counts. Paul of Tarsus was a convert, and he certainly took the Faith very seriously after his encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus.

On that note, every single one of Jesus' disciples were converts. So were Mark, Luke, Ananias, Silas, Apollos, Timothy, Titus......literally everybody in the first years of the Church.

So if Fr. Beck thinks that he's a better Catholic than those named above simply because he was born into the Faith, he's dead wrong. He can smugly walk around with his nose in the air if he wants to, but all it will get him is wind going up his sinuses.

 

[RileyG]

Not a convert myself but converts quite often have a better grasp of the faith than the lifers. This is one of those cases.

Yup! Some, such as LizzieAnswers, are much more passionate about it!