Vice President JD Vance tempered any burgeoning feud the new Pope might have with the Trump administration saying that he attempts to separate politics from church.

Speaking on the “Hugh Hewitt Show” on Friday, Vance dismissed the unconfirmed reports that a social media account belonging to Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, had reposted an opinion article criticizing the Trump administration’s stance on immigration and how Vance views the policy through his Catholic faith. The article was reposted in mid-April and used the illegal immigrants moved by the Trump administration to El Salvador as an example of their callous policy. “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” the op-ed that Prevost reposted reads.

On Thursday, the cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected Chicago native Prevost, 69, as the first American-born Pope to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Prevost chose Leo XIV as his papal name.

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