US vice president JD Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday

US vice president JD Vance met Pope Francis briefly on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administrationās migrant deportation plans.
Mr Vanceās motorcade entered Vatican City through a side gate and parked near Francisā hotel residence while Easter Mass was being celebrated in St Peterās Square.
Francis, who has greatly cut back his workload to recover from a near-fatal case of pneumonia, delegated the celebration of the Mass to another cardinal.
The Vatican said they met for a few minutes at the Domus Santa Marta āto exchange Easter greetingsā. Mr Vanceās office said that they met, but provided no further details.

Mr Vanceās motorcade was on Vatican territory for 17 minutes.
Mr Vance and the pope have tangled sharply over migration and the Trump administrationās plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy.
Just days before he was admitted to hospital in February, Francis criticised the Trump administrationās deportation plans, warning that they would deprive migrants of their inherent dignity.
In a letter to US bishops, Francis also appeared to respond to Mr Vance directly for having claimed that Catholic doctrine justified such policies.
Mr Vance has acknowledged Francisā criticism but has said he will continue to defend his views.
In February at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Mr Vance did not address the issue specifically but called himself a ābaby Catholicā and acknowledged there are āthings about the faith that I donāt knowā.
Mr Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, met the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, on Saturday.
Mr Vanceās office said he and Cardinal Parolin ādiscussed their shared religious faith, Catholicism in the United States, the plight of persecuted Christian communities around the world, and President Trumpās commitment to restoring world peaceā.
The Vatican, for its part, said there was an āexchange of opinionsā including over migrants and refugees and current conflicts.
The Holy See has responded cautiously to the Trump administration while seeking to continue productive relations in keeping with its tradition of diplomatic neutrality.
It has expressed alarm over the administrationās crackdown on migrants andĀ cuts in international aidĀ while insisting on peaceful resolutions to the wars inĀ UkraineĀ andĀ Gaza.