The journal’s readers are likely aware of the controversy created by Vice President JD Vance’s defense of the Trump administration’s “America First” policy. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity,¹ he appealed to the idea of an ordo amoris (introduced by Augustine and developed by Aquinas). Some Catholic voices defended Vance’s interpretation,² while others criticized it as misguided, particularly in regard to how it ignored the priority that Christianity gives to the urgency and desperation of our neighbors’ needs. As Stephen Pope put it, “No true Catholic ethic relegates mass numbers of distant suffering neighbors to the outer periphery of our moral concern.”³