Vance’s visit to the seat of Catholicism during the Church’s holiest days of the year comes under the shadow of his public tiff with an ailing Pope Francis and in the wake of

Vice President JD Vance is in Rome with his family for Easter weekend where he is visiting the Vatican. It comes just days after Pope Francis rebuked the Trump administration for its crackdown on migrants and for slashing international aid.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance had a meeting with the Vatican's second-in-command on Saturday, following a notable papal criticism of the Trump administration's harsh stance on migrants and Vance's theological defense of it,