Vice President JD Vance said this week he didn't want to get political about new pope Leo XIV, calling his election "a great thing."

JD Vance’s intellectual mentor has revealed why the vice president is unlikely to take on a “cage match” with the new pope, Leo XIV. James Orr, a Cambridge professor who Vance once called his “British sherpa,

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to the Chicago-born priest.