On JD Vance’s final morning in Rome, the headlines that the pope had snubbed him were already a day old. Donald Trump’s vice president had come on the busiest weekend of the church’s Jubilee year, expecting a meeting with a sickly pope who had already condemned his policies.

Vice President JD Vance, who has a home in East Walnut Hills, converted to Catholicism six years ago at a church in Greater Cincinnati.

Pope Francis died at age 88 on Easter Monday, April 21 – but not before issuing an apparent condemnation of Vice President J.D. Vance and the Trump administration's immigration policies