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Miles Archer

(24,018 posts) Sun May 3, 2026, 12:43 PM Sunday

"Outspoken Catholic" V.P. Couch Effer loses trip to Italy to meet with the Pope to LITTLE MARCO. SAD! UNFAIR! WOKE POPE!

Catholic convert JD Vance appears to have missed a shot at a reunion with Pope Leo XIV—with his frenemy Marco Rubio tapped for the honor instead.

A Vatican source told Reuters that the secretary of state is expected to travel to Italy and meet with the pontiff on Thursday.

This marks almost a year since Rubio and Vance met Pope Leo together on May 19, 2025, with the Illinois-born pope has so far declined Vance’s invitation to visit the White House.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/vance-loses-out-to-rubio-in-major-diplomatic-snub/

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"Outspoken Catholic" V.P. Couch Effer loses trip to Italy to meet with the Pope to LITTLE MARCO. SAD! UNFAIR! WOKE POPE! (Original Post) Miles Archer Sunday OP

The Pope must know a heretic when he sees one. Ocelot II Sunday #1

Leo spent many years using the Spanish language. Frasier Balzov Sunday #2

Ocelot II

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1. The Pope must know a heretic when he sees one.

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Sun May 3, 2026, 12:54 PM

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Vladimir Futon will be lucky if he doesn't get excommunicated. Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Frasier Balzov

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2. Leo spent many years using the Spanish language.

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Sun May 3, 2026, 01:24 PM

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Rubio is fluent and undoubtedly a better consumer of whatever the Pontiff has to say.

Also, I'm sure it appears to the Vatican that Rubio is a more committed Catholic whereas Vance might merely be sampling it.

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