Vice President JD Vance met with official number 2 of the Vatican on Saturday in Rome, and the couple had an “exchange of opinions” on international issues, including migrants and deportations under the Trump administration.
“There was an exchange of opinions about the international situation, especially with respect to the countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with special attention to migrants, refugees and prisoners,” said a Vatican statement after the meeting.
“Finally, Hope expressed himself for serene collaboration between the State and the Catholic Church in the United States, whose valuable service to the most vulnerable people were recognized.”
Vance, who became Catholicism in 2019, met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, his Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Vice President JD Vance and his family met Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican State Ecretary on Saturday. (Vatican Media through AP, HO)
He and Parolin “discussed their shared religious faith, Catholicism in the United States, the difficult situation of the Christian communities pursued throughout the world and the commitment of President Trump to restore world peace,” said Vance's office.
Pope Francis has reduced his official meetings from a fight with double pneumonia.
The Vatican has faced the Trump administration about its deportation impulse, but the Holy See affirmed its good relations with the United States after the meeting.
The Vatican meeting of the Vice President is part of an official trip to Italy and India.
Vance with his family in a Good Friday service in Rome on Friday. (Photo AP/Alessandra Tarantino)
Vance, with the second Lady Usha Vance and her two young children, arrived in Rome on Friday and met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“I am grateful every day for this work, but particularly today, where my official duties have brought me to Rome on Good Friday,” wrote the 40 -year -old in his account X on Friday. “I had a great meeting with Prime Minister Meloni and his team, and I will go to the Church soon with my family in this beautiful city. I wish all Christians around the world, but particularly those who are at home in the United States, a blessed Good Friday. He died so that we could live.”
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Vance and his family leave the botanical gardens of Rome on Saturday. (Photo AP/RICCARDO DE LUCA)
The meeting took place one day after President Trump met Meloni at the White House to discuss a commercial agreement.
The American bishop Robert Barron, who, along with being bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, is also an online evangelist and founder of Word On Fire Ministries, told Fox News Digital that “he was pleased to hear that Vice President JD Vance met with the Parolin cardinal and the archbishop Galagher in the Vatican.
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“American Catholics will appreciate that our Catholic vice president was received with such a warm welcome. I am sure that among the many issues they addressed were immigration and war in Ukraine, which are the most important thing for the Holy See and the United States.
“The vice president, as a Catholic, shares a common faith with his Vatican interlocutors, but also a common language in Catholic social education, which leads to political and cultural realities moral and theological principles, ideas and recommendations.”
It is expected that the vice president will leave Italy to India, the second stretch of his trip, on Monday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
