JD Vance, seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, and a self-described atheist, lectured the Pope about theological precision. The Pope has served as Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. So the Pope is told to keep himself to the sacristy, but the President has the role of “dictating” the political world? When Vance tells the Pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be about. He is in communion with power.