JD Vance meets Pope Francis after Vatican criticism of migrant deportations [Video]

JD Vance’s three-day visit to Rome – dubbed on social media as Roman Holiday, the title of the classic Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck film – took on the proportions of a presidential, even regal, visit.

On Saturday, the U.S. Vice President, his wife, Usha Vance, and their three young children had a private tour of the Vatican Museums’ Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece and the site of the papal conclaves, where popes are elected. Normally, the chapel is packed with lesser mortals on tour.

On the same day, Mr. Vance’s arrived for his official visit to the Vaticanin a 40-vehicle motorcade of black, dark-windowed sedans, SUVs and vans that clogged traffic and left bewildered Romans wondering which vehicle he was actually in. There, he met the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is considered a candidate to succeed the ailing Pope Francis, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Foreign …