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The Catholic Herald: JD Vance to Meet Cardinal Parolin on Easter trip to Rome – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Catholic Herald: JD Vance to Meet Cardinal Parolin on Easter trip to Rome

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The Catholic Herald, April 17, 2025

It has been confirmed that US Vice-President JD Vance and his family will travel to Italy at the end of Holy Week and spend Easter there, according to a news release from the Office of the Vice President.

The announcement follows recent speculation about a potential visit by Vance to Rome and the nature of the visit.

The US vice-president, who is arguably the US’s best known and most influential/controversial Catholic convert, will meet with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during his time in Rome, according to the news release.

There is no mention of whether Vance will meet with Pope Francis, who is still recovering from a serious respiratory illness that required him to stay in hospital for more than a month and during which he reportedly nearly died.

At the end of February, Vance responded to Pope Francis’s criticisms of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, when he attended the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast held in the US capitol. ….

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