US EditionVance pays tribute to late Pope, one day after meeting him
- Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, 2025, shortly after meeting US Vice President JD Vance in Rome.
- This occurred after the Pope had been recovering from recent health issues, and his meeting with Vance was not originally planned.
- Vance met the Pope on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, during a weekend visit to Italy for diplomatic discussions.
- The Vatican announced Francis died at 7:35 a.m. local time at age 88; Vance noted he saw him "obviously very ill."
- Following the death, Vance expressed condolences, while social media users created theories and jokes about the timing.
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Guest viewpoint: Pope was a messenger of morality on issues
On Easter morning, the day before he died, Pope Francis met Vice President JD Vance, a devout defender of President Trump’s virulent anti-immigration policies. Francis and Vance exchanged brief pleasantries, but a few minutes later, an archbishop read the pontiff’s…
JD Vance was one of the last people to meet Pope Francis in his lifetime. Now the American vice president is speaking out about the meeting. – I didn't realize how sick he was, he says during a visit to India.
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Bowen Yang managed to make just about everyone in the room lose it during his appearance on “The View” on Thursday morning, when he bluntly joked that JD Vance is “a pope killer.” The moment came as the ABC talk show hosts praised Yang for his impression of the vice president on “Saturday Night Live,” which has become a regular occurrence since the 2024 election. Yang confirmed that he originally thought there’d be better options to play Vance, …
Pope Francis died a few hours after a meeting with US Vice President Jay DeVance. If that wasn't a bad enough sign, Republican Congresswoman Marjory Taylor Green, an aide to Donald Trump and a self-styled “Christian nationalist,” appears to have hailed the pope's death as a sign that “evil has been defeated.”
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