Ordered Loves: When JD Vance Brought up the Ordo Amoris
A lawyer asked Jesus a question to test Him: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. A second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets” ( Matthew 22:34-40 ). An interesting debate was stirred a couple weeks ago when Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that the political Left prioritized illegal immigrants over their fellow American citizens. Vance said: “There’s this old school—and I believe a very Christian concept, by the way—you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus on and prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate th...