On his way to the basilica, Francis briefly met US vice president JD Vance, who was spending Easter in Rome with his family.

Vance and the pope have tangled sharply over migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse.

JD Vance was granted an audience with Pope Francis but it lasted just a few minutes, amid sharp tensions between the Holy See ...

US vice president JD Vance met Pope Francis briefly on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a ...