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Calling someone a “pastor” is a Protestant thing. You wouldn’t hear a Catholic call The Pope a pastor.

Vance, like a lot of tradcaths, is LARPing because the rituals look cool. Sorta like how Andrew Tate is a “Muslim” because he thinks it’s all about controlling women, but at the same time unabashedly drinks in public.

Like not all Catholics are obsessed with the Pope, but like I have merch of the man from my Vatican visit. I have some conservative Catholic family critical of the Pope’s more progressive views, but they would never talk like this.

"Pastor" is the term for the person that leads a church / church congregation. The general ranking of the hierarchy is:

• Deacon (not yet a priest, are usually all volunteer, but can do some ceremonies)
• Pastor or priest (ordained, usually employed by the Church itself, they're allowed to hold all ceremonies and conduct mass or church service)
• Bishop (management level, must be 35, must be a priest for 5 years)
• Archbishop (oversee multiple churches and run the archdiocese; there's 196 in the US. Wyoming has a single archdiocese)
• Cardinal (upper management, only cardinals are allowed to vote on new popes)
• Lastly - Pope. The man at the top, there's only one.

J.D. Vance is Catholic, and referred to the Pope as a 'pastor'. This would be like somebody saying "(insert American President) was a good mayor".

I think pastor is for the Protestants.

I'm assuming priest orr something similar. Please understand I am also non-religious. So I'm basically just guessing