‘EXCHANGE OF OPINIONS’: Within the Vatican for Easter, VP Vance Faces off With Catholic Church’s Prime Diplomat Over Migrants, Has Non-public Viewers With Ailing Pope Francis (VIDEOS) | The Gateway Pundit

In his journey to Italy, US Vice President JD Vance met with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Deputy PM Mateo Salvini in Rome, solidifying the shut relations between the 2 nations.

“I’m grateful each day for this job, however significantly at this time the place my official duties have introduced me to Rome on Good Friday. I had a terrific assembly with Prime Minister Meloni and her crew, and can head to church quickly with my household on this stunning metropolis. I want all Christians all around the world, however significantly these again residence within the US, a blessed Good Friday. He died in order that we’d stay.”

However one other a part of his journey was to happen throughout Easter celebrations within the Vatican.

After attending Good Friday mass in St. Peter’s Cathedral on Saturday, Vance met with senior Vatican officers for talks that adopted earlier sharp criticism by Pope Francis of the Donald J. Trump administration’s immigration coverage.

CNN reported:

“The Vatican stated that throughout the assembly an ‘change of opinions’ occurred regarding migrants, refugees, and prisoners.

The vp, a Catholic, has been visiting Rome together with his household over the Easter weekend and attended a Good Friday service in St. Peter’s Basilica.”

Vance met Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State (Vatican’s prime diplomat), and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s overseas minister.

“‘There was an change of opinions on the worldwide scenario, particularly relating to nations affected by battle, political tensions and troublesome humanitarian conditions, with explicit consideration to migrants, refugees, and prisoners’, in accordance with a Vatican communique launched following the assembly.

Vance’s workplace later launched its personal readout, which acknowledged that the vp and Parolin mentioned ‘their shared non secular religion, Catholicism in the US, the plight of persecuted Christian communities around the globe, and President Trump’s dedication to restoring world peace’.”

“Forward of Saturday’s talks, Parolin informed Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the ‘present US administration could be very totally different from what we’re used to and, particularly within the West, from what we now have relied on for a few years’.”

Later within the day, it was divulged that Vance has a brief, personal assembly with ailing Pope Francis.

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