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JD Vance calls his Vatican meeting right before Pope Francis died ‘unsettling’ in new book
The Independent • • nation
Key Points:
- Vice President JD Vance criticized the Vatican in his memoir "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," describing a meeting with Cardinal Pietro Parolin about migration as "unsettling" due to the Vatican's reliance on vague moral platitudes.
- Vance, a Catholic convert since 2019, expressed frustration that Vatican diplomats did not specify which aspects of the Trump administration’s immigration policies they opposed, suggesting a diplomatic reluctance to be direct.
- The vice president recounted his Easter morning meeting with a frail Pope Francis shortly before the pontiff’s death, noting concerns about the pope’s health and the sensitivity surrounding the visit.
- Vance contrasted his preference for Pope Francis’s direct exhortations with the vague statements from other Vatican officials and urged the new American-born Pope Leo XIV to exercise caution in theological discussions.
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