Vice President JD Vance says his meeting last year with Vatican diplomats in Rome was “unsettling” as the officials uttered what he describes as “trite platitudes” and “clichés,” adding that he preferred the direct rebukes offered by Pope Francis.
His account of the April 2025 meeting with Vatican officials, which preceded a brief Easter morning visit the next day with Francis just before the pope’s death, is an element of Vance’s new book, set to be released Tuesday.
