JD Vance is being slammed online after he broke one of the most notorious Vatican rules during his Easter weekend visit. The vice president was trailed by White House photographer Emily Higgins as he toured the iconic sites that the 10 million or so people who visit Vatican City each year are sure to recognize.

Vance and Francis had publicly disagreed in recent months on immigration policies and other aspects of church teaching, so an Easter Sunday meeting with the pope, in what proved to be the final hours of his life,

The ailing pope’s decision to welcome the vice president seemed to highlight Francis’s sense of duty and care for others — a trait Vance himself had praised just weeks earlier.