Vice President J.D. Vance attended the Good Friday service in Rome during his trip to Italy amid Holy Week.

Vance, a Catholic, went to St. Peter’s Basilica along with his wife, Usha, and three children.

The 88-year-old Pope Francis reportedly did not attend the service, as he convalesces from a weeks-long hospital stay earlier this year from pneumonia.  

The Pope in February criticized the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations and rebutted the theological concept Vance used to defend the crackdown. 

The vice president was not scheduled to personally meet with the Pope on his trip, amid speculation he might. However, he was set to meet with the Vatican secretary of state. 

Prior to the Good Friday service, Vance met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one day after she met with President Donald Trump at the White House.

"I’m grateful every day for this job, but particularly today where my official duties have brought me to Rome on Good Friday," Vance wrote on the social media platform, X. "I had a great meeting with Prime Minister Meloni and her team, and will head to church soon with my family in this beautiful city."