Father James Martin of Roman -Gay has accused JD Vence's vice president of the ancient Christian concept. OrdamorisOr the order of love.
VANCE appeared in Fox News on Thursday Hanity Programs, during that time Explained A government duty that prioritizes the common interests of their own citizens before looking at other areas of the world.
“You love your family, you love your neighbors, you love your community, and you love your colleagues in your country, and Later, you can focus on the rest and prioritize Vans, summarized classical education by Holy Augustine and Thomas Aquinas in the order of love.
Former British parliamentarians, Rolly Stewart, shot X, phone Vance's words “Weird John 15: 12-13”, the Bible where Jesus ordered his disciples to love each other.
Vance's opinion argued, “There are few tribes, not Christians,” said Stewart. “We will start to worry when a politician becomes a theological, assumes to speak for Jesus, and tells you what order you love …”
Continue discussion, vans Answered: “Google 'Ordo Amoris.”
“Apart from that, the idea that there is no hierarchy violates the basic common sense,” he wrote. “Does Rory really think that his moral duty to his children is the same as his duty for a stranger who lives in thousands of miles away?”
At this point, Father Martin Jumbled Christians argue that everyone should love everyone equally without any support, and fight.
“The basic message of Jesus is that everyone is your neighbor, not to help your family or the closest to you,” the priest X fought. They are all of our neighbors. “
However, in fact, Vans (Dominica's Insul Configuration Catholic) has legally interpreted the Catholic tradition.
in Do Doctrina Christiana (About Christian doctrine), Augustine Explained It is natural to love the closest people, such as family and fellow citizens, rather than distant strangers. He did not intend to disable a wider duty to love all people, but our responsibilities are the closest to us or those who depend on us. I talked about.
Also Augustine Developed This point of his monumental work Town of godsHe noticed that humans were naturally tilting to take care of their families. Augustine acknowledged that it was correct and appropriate to love family and brothers rather than strangers without justifying this orderly love.
In the same job, Augustine told me that political leaders should give priority to their citizens. He compared a political supporter into his parents. Parents have better obligations for children than strangers.
Similarly, St. Thomas Aquinas taught it Ordamoris It means assigning more love to families, close friends, and brothers to meaningful acquaintances and strangers. Christians are called to love everyone, but he wrote that even our enemies have the obligation to love the closest people.
Political ruler, he I wrote In him SUMMA THEOLOGICAWe must act as a public property manager and prioritize the common interests of our citizens, so we must ensure people's order and happiness.
Aquinas said the ruler first had to love his community, but would not ignore more moral duty.
Or, as St. Paul wrote in the first letter to Timothy (1 Tim 5: 8): “But if someone has not provided your own, he especially for his family. Deneal religion and is worse than distrust. “
