U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over the Trump administration's immigration policies, took part in a religious service at the Vatican on Friday but the convalescing pope did not attend.

US Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Vatican on Saturday morning ahead of a meeting with the Holy See's second-highest official, just two months after Pope Francis lambasted the new US administration.

Vance’s visit to the seat of Catholicism during the Church’s holiest days of the year comes under the shadow of his public tiff with an ailing Pope Francis and in the wake of