Christian or not, the world has felt a convincing influence from the April 21 demise of 88-year-old Pope Francis, almost one month after he was discharged from an prolonged hospital keep for acute respiratory issues brought on by double pneumonia. Whereas his official reason behind demise has been recognized as a cerebral stroke, hundreds of thousands of social media customers have pinned the blame on United States Vice President JD Vance, who briefly met with the Pope on Easter Sunday, lower than 24 hours earlier than he handed.
Already made to be the laughingstock of the web on a number of events inside the final 12 months alone, Vance has been catapulted into the meme-o-sphere but once more because of the suspicious proximity of his go to to the Vatican and the Pope’s demise.
The reportedly coincidental overlap (🥴) has birthed hundreds of memes that paint Vance — a Catholic convert in maturity — because the antichrist, the satan, and a corrupted soul that drove the Pope to his demise. Different memes argue that regardless of his illnesses, Pope Francis held on lengthy sufficient simply to inform Vance what a horrible Catholic he was … Both method, it’s an more and more unhealthy search for the US’s already withered fame worldwide.
Forward of his 17-minute drop-in on the Pope’s quarters, Vance initially met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Paul Gallagher on Holy Saturday for an “exchange of opinions on the international situation … with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”
Marian Kamensky, “JD Vance Visits the Pope” (2025) (by way of @muzej_karikature on Instagram)
In January, Pope Francis publicly referred to as President Trump’s aggressive plan to crack down on unlawful immigration a “disgrace.” He adopted up with a extra detailed letter a couple of week earlier than his 38-day hospitalization, outlining how the Trump administration’s concentrating on and deportation of migrants and refugees dealing with dire conditions of their homelands “damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”
Within the letter, the Holy Father instantly discredited Vance’s individualistic invocation of ordo amoris, a Medieval Catholic ideology which delineates a hierarchy of affection, with a view to justify prioritizing Americans forward of immigrants.
“The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’, that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception,” the Pope wrote on February 10.
He truly wrote about this in “Hillbilly Elegy,” we simply weren’t paying consideration. (by way of @MikeBeauvais on X)
Pope Francis delivered his closing deal with on Easter Sunday, minutes after the transient assembly with Vance, and underscored compassion for the susceptible, the marginalized, and migrants, in addition to liberation of prisoners of warfare and political prisoners. Netizens have interpreted the speech because the Pope’s closing phrase in opposition to Vance and the broader Trump administration’s insurance policies — particularly contemplating his terseness within the US Vice President’s presence.
For this reason Google deprioritized Wikimedia entries. (by way of @magills_ on X)
For sure, Vance could have thought that the fabricated story of intercourse with a sofa was as soon as his largest downside — however this can be a stain that may by no means wash clear, coincidence or not.
So — do we now have a trophy-dropping, Pope-killing, demonic couch-violator as a Vice President, or was Pope Francis only a bodily fragile 88-year-old man on the brink after a extreme well being disaster earlier this 12 months? Trying by the content material that has emerged within the final day, social media customers actually do put up a convincing argument for the previous.
He took the lyrics “Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain” fairly actually. (by way of @redrumjuan on X)A foul case of Hellitosis 
The chances are good however the items are odd, or so they are saying … (by way of @PerryALPHA on X)
The prophecy has two chapters, apparently. (by way of @ActualNames1 on X)
He actually did gag everybody with that, as ‘yaoi cocaine bear’ factors out … (by way of @venti_later on X)That is truly the way it occurred …
