Fact Check: Did Pope Leo really say JD Vance ‘flip-flops faster than pages in the Bible’?

VATICAN CITY, ROME: Pope Fran­cis’ suc­ces­sor, Robert Fran­cis Pre­vost, who has tak­en on the papal name Pope Leo, has become the first Amer­i­can-born pope. Since his appoint­ment, some of his old social media posts crit­i­ciz­ing the Don­ald Trump admin­is­tra­tion and Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance have resur­faced.

Recent­ly, a video claim­ing that Pope Leo said Vance “flip-flops faster than pages in the Bible” has been mak­ing the rounds on social media. But is there any truth to this? Let us find out below. 

Claim: Pope Leo says JD Vance ‘flip-flops faster than pages in the Bible

In May, a video that showed Pope Leo alleged­ly crit­i­ciz­ing JD Vance went viral on social media. “You flip-flop faster than pages in the Bible,” he can be heard say­ing.

In the clip, the Pope seemed to deliv­er a mono­logue accus­ing Vance of using reli­gion for polit­i­cal gain and con­tra­dict­ing Chris­t­ian val­ues.

In May, a video that showed Pope Leo alleged­ly crit­i­ciz­ing JD Vance went viral on social media. “You flip-flop faster than pages in the Bible,” he can be heard say­ing.

In the clip, the Pope seemed to deliv­er a mono­logue accus­ing Vance of using reli­gion for polit­i­cal gain and con­tra­dict­ing Chris­t­ian val­ues.

Accord­ing to the video, Pope Leo said, “At the end of the day, you’re not defend­ing the faith, you’re dec­o­rat­ing your cam­paign with it. You’ve turned reli­gion into a fac­to­ry for man­u­fac­tur­ing votes. Vance, if you’re will­ing to repent, the church doors are still open.”

Fact-check: No, Pope Leo did not make such a statement about JD Vance

The claims made in the video are false as Pope Leo nev­er made the said remarks about VP JD Vance, accord­ing to fact-check­ing out­let Snopes.

More­over, results on search engines such as Google and Bing did not show any authen­tic result of the pope mak­ing any such remark.

Fur­ther­more, the quote did not appear on the Vat­i­can’s offi­cial press web­sites or in any pub­lic remarks attrib­uted to Pope Leo by rep­utable news orga­ni­za­tions, per the fact-check­ing out­let.