Vatican City (AP) – US vice-president JD Vance Briefly meeting with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange greetings from Easter, after having taken a long -distance tangle on the expulsion plans of migrants from the Trump administration.
The procession of Vance entered the city of the Vatican through a side door and parked near the residence of the Hôtel de Francis while the Easter Mass was celebrated on Saint-Pierre square. Francis, who has considerably reduced his workload to recover from an almost deadly case of pneumonia, delegate the celebration From mass to another cardinal.
The Vatican said they met for a few minutes at the Domus Santa Marta “to exchange greetings from Easter”. The Vance office said they met, but had provided no other details. In all, the procession of Vance was on the Vatican territory for 17 minutes.
Vance and the pope have Boring strongly on migration And the Trump administration plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made the care of migrants a characteristic of its papacy.
A few days before his hospitalization in February, Francis castigated the deportation plans of the Trump administration, warning that they would deprive the migrants of their inherent dignity. In a letter to the American bishops, Francis also seemed to respond directly to Vance for having said that the justified Catholic doctrine such policies.
Vance has Criticism of Francis Recognized But said that he would continue to defend his opinions. During an appearance on February 28 at the national breakfast of Catholic prayer in Washington, Vance did not address the question specifically but qualified as “Catholic baby” and recognized that there are “things on the faith that I do not know”.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met on Saturday the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Archbishop Paul Gallagher.
The office of Vance said that he and the Paroline “discussed their shared religious faith, Catholicism in the United States, the fate of the Christian communities persecuted in the world and the commitment of President Trump to restore world peace”.
The Vatican, for his part, said that there was an “exchange of opinions”, including on migrants and refugees and current conflicts.
The Holy See responded with caution to the Trump administration while seeking to continue its productive relations in accordance with its tradition of diplomatic neutrality. He expressed his alarm in the face of the repression of the administration against migrants and International aid cuts while insisting on peaceful resolutions for wars Ukraine And Gaza.
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