While on a trip to Italy last week with his family, the vice president was one of the last officials to meet with Pope Francis. Vance, who is Catholic, had formal talks with the Vatican’s secretary of state and then had an informal meeting with Francis on Easter Sunday.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance played down political differences between the Trump administration and the late Pope Francis and said he felt lucky to have held one of the last meetings with the Catholic pontiff before he died.