Vice president JD Vance and State Secretary Marco Rubio held his first formal meeting with Papa Leo Xiv On the Vatican a day after you attend a pontifene inaugural mass.
During the visit to the Apostolic Palace on Monday morning, Vance, the Catholic converter, gave a 69 year old Chicago Born Pontiff A letter rated by the President Donald Trump And the first lady of Melania Trump in which the couple invited him to visit the White House.
According to the videos of the meeting that took over the Vatican media and obtained by Associated printing, Pope Leo heard he says, “At some point.”
At the private meeting, which was initially one-one before the other lady of Usha Vance, Rubio and his wife Jeanette Rubio, the vice-presidential office said Leo was given by the two seminar works of St. Augustine: The city of God and On the Christian doctrine.
The third gift was the Chicago Bears T-shirt decorated “Pope Leo XIV”.
In return, Leo gave Vance and the bronze sculpture with “Peace is a fragile flower” held in Italian. The vice president also received a small picture of paper apartments in the Apostolic Palace.
“As you can probably imagine, people in the United States are extremely excited about you,” Vance said on the Pope when exchanging gifts.
The meeting comes less than a month after Vance met the late Pope Francis, who previously took over mass plans for the deportation of the Trump Administration, the day before death in Easter Sunday.
Vance and Rubio also met with the Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallaghero for the “cordial” meeting that confirmed “good bilateral relations”.
“There was an exchange of opinions on some current international issues, calling for respect for humanitarian law and international law in the areas of conflict and for the negotiated solution between the parties involved,” Vatican said.
Meetings were placed on the background of tension for imminent with papacy publicly criticizing Verca’s understanding of Catholicism and the anti-Setar rhetoric of Trump administration. In return, some conservative rebellion and a magician loyalists They complained about what they considered the gradual values of Pontif.
Trump Administration hopes to withstand olive and reset the relationships with the Vatican working harmoniously on the solution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
On Sunday, the vice president brought the American delegation on Sunday Pope Leo on Sunday, during which Pontiff called for peace in Gaza, Ukraine and Myanmar.
Said the source in the Ukrainian delegation Reuters That Vance and Rubio also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump is expected to speak both Monday with the Greens and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The rest of the day Vance met with foreign leaders, including the President of the Commission of the European Union in Ursulu Von Der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said that the meeting could be a “new beginning.”