Pope Leo XIV. He received JD Vance’s private audience with his wife Uzha on Monday in the Vatican. According to AFP, the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio was also at this meeting, writes TASR. The Vatican also published photographs of Vance at a meeting with a Pope born in Chicago, who was elected at the head of the Catholic Church on 8 May.
Vance then met the Secretary of the Holy See for Relations with States Paul Richard Gallagher. According to the Vatican, bilateral relations and cooperation between the Church and the State, as well as some questions with meaning for ecclesiastical life and religious freedom, were assessed at this meeting.
Both parties have also exchanged opinions on some current international issues, There were calls for respect for humanitarian and international law in conflict areas and to achieve solutions through negotiations between stakeholders.
Vance has been in Rome for the third time in the last month. He was the last high -ranking politician who met Pope Francis before his death Easter Monday, April 21. Together with US President Donald Trump, Vance was one of the guests at the funeral mass For the deceased Pope, which took place on the Svätopteter Square in the Vatican 26 April.
Vance and Rubio were present on Sunday at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, where about 200,000 people participated in St. Peter Square.
Ansa recalled that Before Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he published criticism of US President Donald Trump’s administration for her access to migration and was also pushed by Vance in person. Nevertheless, Vance declared on Sunday that the United States is “very proud” on the lion.
