Lane? What lane?

JD Vance tells the pope to stick to his own job.

JD Vance has weighed in on Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo, effectively telling the pontiff to stay in his lane after the head of the Catholic church criticized the White House over the Iran war.

“It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy,” the vice-president – a Catholic convert himself – said in an interview on Fox News on Monday night.

But that wouldn’t be the Vatican, hon. The Catholic church sees itself as the boss of all of us, much the way Trump sees himself as the boss of all of us. You’ve got megalomaniacal people and institutions? They’re gonna megalomania.

Vance’s entrance into the dispute, and loyal defense of his boss, came after Leo responded on Monday by declaring he did not fear the Trump administration, and would continue to “speak strongly” against war, and for peace.

Asked what he made of the episode, which has angered many in Trump’s evangelical base, Vance tried to brush aside the controversy.

“Sometimes we’re going to have disagreements on matters of public policy,” he said.

But how can that be? Trump is divine and never wrong, and the pope is divine and never wrong. Where is there room for disagreements? If you disagree…one of you is wrong. But neither of you can ever be wrong! You know this!