There’s a technical term for
“the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.”
In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”
https://bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.social/post/3mprxnk4mf22h
Bluesky SocialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social)“'I was the most senior Catholic in the US government,' Vance recalls, affronted, '& the Vatican seemed unwilling to move its moral guidance....'”
“The Scottish writer Stephen Daisley [noted the] 'breezy impertinence' [by which] Vance 'tells the pope... that he is in error on Church doctrine.'"
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