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, who has been a vocal critic of the Pope's views on migration, was in the Vatican for meetings with the Holy See's top diplomats, and to attend the Easter services, despite Pop

Vance, visiting Italy with his family over the Easter weekend, joined a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica for Good Friday, the day Christians mark Jesus' crucifixion. The vice president was seen entering the event with his wife Usha and their three young children.

Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, did not attend an annual procession on Friday at Rome's Colosseum with thousands of Catholic faithful for the third year in a row. The 88-year-old pontiff,

Pope Francis kept annual Holy Week appointment visiting dozens of inmates in a Rome prison on Thursday. The 88-year-old is still recovering from pneumonia.

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate.