05/02/2025
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Vance sat for an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
VANCE WAS ONE OF POPE FRANCIS’ LAST VISITORS
The vice president told Fox News Digital that he met Pope Francis on Easter Sunday but “didn’t plan to see the Holy Father because he was ill.”
Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance and his delegation during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
“But we were invited to come and visit with him before he went and did his Easter mass appearance,” Vance explained.
“I was one of, if not the very last world leader to actually meet with the pope,” Vance said. “I took one of my relatively junior staffers, who is a devout Catholic, and I looked back at him when he was about to meet the pope, and he was crying—it sort of drives home how important this, not just this man, but this institution is to over a billion people worldwide.”
“There are 1.5 billion practicing Catholics in the world, so that was a very big moment,” Vance said.
PHOTO GALLERY: POPE FRANCIS THROUGH THE YEARS
Vance told Fox News Digital that he had a “very gracious meeting” with the pope on Easter Sunday.
“The pope was very kind—he was obviously very frail,” Vance said. “We didn’t spend a lot of time together. It was mostly exchanging pleasantries, but he gave a few gifts—he gave my kids Easter baskets, and there was just this very sweet moment.”
During the meeting, the pope gave the Catholic vice president three big chocolate Easter eggs for Vance’s three young children, who did not attend, as well as a Vatican tie and rosaries.
“I definitely cherish it,” Vance said.
Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance and his delegation during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
Following their meeting, the vice president went to Easter Sunday Mass in Rome at the Tomb of St. Paul with his family, before getting on a plane to India.
“I was very excited about that trip—my wife’s parents are from India and I’d never been there,” said Vance. “And about an hour after we landed, a staffer came over and said, ‘Sir, the pope died.’”
“I obviously felt very sad, and my thought went immediately to the pope, but also to all these Catholics who love him,” Vance said.
“But then it kind of hit me—oh my God—I was one of the last people to talk to him,” Vance said. “I just take it as a great honor and a sign from God to remember that you never know when your last day on this Earth is.”
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
04/29/2025
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04/27/2025
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Following is Pope Francis’ Visit to the U.S.
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04/26/2025
Differences of opinions have been in the mix for many years. We still respect our past Pope for his and the next Pope’s and the world’s opinions. We all know the U.S. has been the bread basket of the world and has worked with the world to keep PEACE by injecting our country in wars that were not necessary and still are.
President Trump was elected by he Conservatives of the country to bring the country out the abyss of socialism which has been formed by the Democrats starting with Presidents Clinton/Obama/Biden and the One World Order. As the world knows – the country has been going through a house-cleaning with GOGE since the election in 2024 and has found corruption (12 years worth) to the core. At the moment, adjustments are being made and the Democrat Socialists are not happy because they lost their identity as Democrats and therefore have lost their soul. They will not assist in working with the President in the clean-up and have been lost in their own corruption not knowing in which direction to go.
So, criticizing our President is nothing new. He and his family have been put through hell on earth and we ask the world to be more patient in their criticism.
It is confusing to the citizens that the U.S. is being criticized for wanting to build a wall at our southern border; but, it is okay for the Pope’s city to have a wall and that Germany had a wall dividing its own city during the WWII. Excuse my bluntness!
America has always been a generous country to the world and is the world now turning their back on the U.S. because we have to pause and regroup due to the Democrat Socialism corruption and stop being so generous?
Our only hope is that our next Pope will work for peace in the world and be qualified to represent ALL of the people.
May God Bless Pope Francis in his after life.
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The dean of the College of Cardinals’ homily for Pope Francis at his funeral echoed the late pontiff’s sharp criticism of President Donald Trump.
Trump attended Francis’ funeral with First Lady Melania Trump in St. Peter’s Square with other dignitaries and nearly 200,000 attendees.
Trump was also criticized online by netizens for wearing a blue suit instead of the ceremonial dark colors, being the only dignitary to not do so, compared to Melania’s black veil and outfit.
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Towards the end of his speech, Cardinal Giovanni Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, said, “Pope Francis incessantly raised his voice, imploring peace and calling for reason and honest negotiation to find possible solutions … ‘Build bridges, not walls,’ was an exhortation he repeated many times.”Related video: Trump and Biden arrive for pope’s funeral (The Associated Press)
Trump and Biden arrive for pope’s funeral
This echoed Francis’ criticism of Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexico border during his first term in 2016.
Francis had called those plans “not Christian.”
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel,” the pontiff had said.
During his second term, Trump’s strict border policies and sweeping immigration crackdown compelled the pope to write a letter to U.S. bishops in February, warning that the forceful removal of migrants deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.”
JD Vance meets Pope Francis© Getty Images
Furthermore, the Pope stated that deporting migrants “places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”
Citing the Book of Exodus and Jesus’ own experience, Francis said people have a right to seek shelter and safety in other lands and described the deportation plan as a “major crisis.”
“What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly,” he said.
(That is true as long as you abide by the laws of the U.S. Constitution.)
Pope Francis died a day on Easter Monday, after briefly meeting Vice President JD Vance on Easter.
He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday, when he stepped out to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square and treat them to a surprise drive through the piazza, drawing loud cheers and applause.
Following Francis’ death, Trump hailed him as a “good man” who “worked hard” and “loved the world. ” He even ordered the U.S. flag to be flown at half-staff in the late pontiff’s honor.
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My first reading of the Pope was as follows:
I will remember him in this fashion.
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