JD Vance visits Vatican after papal rebuke over Trump’s migrant crackdown

JD Vance (Kenny Holston/New York Times/AP

US vice president JD Vance has met the Vatican’s number two official after a papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Mr Vance’s theological justification of it.

Mr Vance, a Catholic convert, arrived on Saturday in Vatican City for an appointment with the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the foreign minister, Archbishop Peter Gallagher.