{"id":21447,"date":"2026-04-16T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-tells-pope-leo-to-be-careful-homan-says-leave-politics-alone\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:22:11","slug":"vance-tells-pope-leo-to-be-careful-homan-says-leave-politics-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-tells-pope-leo-to-be-careful-homan-says-leave-politics-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance tells Pope Leo to &#8216;be careful&#8217;, Homan says &#8216;leave politics alone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Trump administration officials escalated criticism of the Vatican on Tuesday, with Vice President Vance warning Pope Leo XIV to &ldquo;be careful&rdquo; when speaking about theology and White House Border Czar Tom Homan telling him to &ldquo;leave politics alone.&rdquo; Vance, a Catholic, issued the warning while addressing the pope&rsquo;s opposition to the conflict with Iran&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5833667-vance-homan-pope-leo-politics\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Trump administration officials escalated criticism of the Vatican on Tuesday, with Vice President Vance warning Pope Leo XIV to &ldquo;be careful&rdquo; when speaking about theology and White House Border Czar Tom Homan telling him to &ldquo;leave politics alone.&rdquo; Vance, a Catholic, issued the warning while addressing the pope&rsquo;s opposition to the conflict with Iran&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}