Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. delegation to attend the inaugural mass on Sunday of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, who had criticized President Donald Trump and Vance before taking leadership of the global Catholic Church.

Vance, the first Catholic convert to serve as Vice President, was recently in Vatican City to meet with Pope Francis and was one of the last people to see the pope before his death.

Vance met with Pope Francis the day before he died Easter Monday at 88.