On Monday, Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where he gifted the Chicago-born pope a custom Bears jersey, according to CBS News. It included his name (Pope Leo) and number (naturally, XIV). “Good choice,” he told Vance when he received the jersey.

Pope Leo XIV, a U.S. citizen who has previously criticized the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies, met at the Vatican on Monday (May 19) with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Roman Catholicism in recent years.

Leo, the Chicago-born former Cardinal Robert Prevost, is a relative unknown on the global stage, elected as the new pope on May 8. While a cardinal, he issued several disapproving posts about the administration's policies on his X account,