JD Vance's home-state newspaper has condemned his recent behaviour and called him a "lapdog vice-president" with his wheels "all the way off" in a scathing indictment of his character. The Ohio Capital Journal published an op-ed earlier this week which referred to Vance’s disagreement with the Pope.

Francis, spiritual leader to nearly 1.4 billion baptized Catholics worldwide, has spent the past dozen years of his papacy highlighting the struggles of migrants and asking the faithful to defend them.