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The motorcade of U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seen en way to Vatican, successful Rome, Italy, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/Pool Photo via AP)
VATICAN CITY – U.S. Vice President JD Vance met concisely with Pope Francis connected Easter Sunday arsenic the pontiff recovers from pneumonia.
Vance’s motorcade entered Vatican City done a broadside gross and parked adjacent Francis’ edifice residence portion Easter Mass was being celebrated successful St. Peter’s Square. Francis, who has greatly chopped backmost his workload to recover, delegated the celebration of the Mass to different cardinal.
The Vatican said they met for a fewer minutes astatine the Domus Santa Marta “to speech Easter greetings.”
Vance and the pope person tangled sharply implicit migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism successful 2019, met with the Vatican caput of authorities and overseas curate connected Saturday.
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