Pope Leo XIV paid little mind to JD Vance after his inaugural mass – only offering the vice president a hasty hello while inviting other world leaders for intimate meetings.

Vance and his wife Usha attended the first American pontiff’s commencement service in Rome on Sunday, despite Pope Leo’s avid criticism of the Trump administration. 

The 69-year-old head of the Catholic Church was seen warmly shaking hands with Vance, at St. Peter’s Square. 

Video from the moment showed the Pope politely nodding along as he, Usha, 39, and Catholic-convert Vance, 40, briefly chatted.  

But the entire post-mass exchange only lasted 17 seconds.

Meanwhile, Pope Leo met privately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Peruvian President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra after celebrating the historic inauguration.

Political figures from Canada, Italy, Germany, as well as European Union officials also attended the ceremony. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was also in the crowd of roughly 200,000 people. 

Before speedily greeting Vance, the Pope seemingly threw a dig at Trump administration immigration policies and stances on land acquisition. 

‘In this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that exploits the Earth’s resources and marginalizes the poorest,’ Pope Leo preached. 

Donald Trump has launched a harsh immigration crackdown and even suggested seizing foreign countries, including Greenland and Canada. 

Formerly known as Father Robert Prevost, the Pope has a track record of calling out Trump and Vance that began before he assumed the prestigious role. 

He has repeatedly criticized Trump’s administration’s immigration stance.

The Pope also shared articles that addressed Vance’s stance on immigration. One of them was titled: ‘JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.’

His last retweet, on April 14, slammed the Trump administration’s deportation of undocumented migrant and Maryland father-of-three Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30, to El Salvador.

The post reads: ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?’

In 2017, the Chicago-born Pope reposted a message in support of DACA recipients – those undocumented migrants brought to the US by their parents when they were children.

Pope Leo also shared a post in 2018 that read: ‘There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages. This is being carried out in our name and the shame is on us all.’

He also shared several message directly opposing Trump’s immigration orders – including a 2018 letter from Peru’s Catholic leaders thanking the Trump administration for ‘stopping the separation of migrant children from their parents.’

Vance last week appeared to brush aside Leo’s previous criticisms as he told conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt: ‘I try not to play the politicization of the Pope game.

‘I’m sure he’s going to say a lot of things that I love. I’m sure he’ll say some things that I disagree with, but I’ll continue to pray for him and the Church despite it all and through it all, and that’ll be the way that I handle it.’

The previous pontiff, Pope Francis, who died just hours after meeting with Vance on Easter, had spoken out against the US vice president for similar reasons as Pope Leo. 

Pope Francis addresses Trump’s deportation plans in a February letter to US bishops, which seemingly went after Vance specifically for using the Catholic faith to defend deportation policies. 

Earlier that month, Vance had argued to a medieval Catholic ideology called ‘ordo amoris’ in Latin, which translates to ‘order of loves,’ justified America-first practices. 

During Trump’s first term in 2016, Pope Francis declared anyone who wants to put up a wall to keep out immigrants is ‘not a Christian.’ 

After the Latin American Pope died, Vance diplomatically told reporters: ‘I’m not going to soil the man’s legacy by talking about politics, I think he was a great Christian pastor and that’s how I choose to remember the Holy Father.’