In this context, a week ago, the Vatican also received two North American diplomats: the chargé d’affaires in Havana, Mike Hammer, and the United States ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burh.
Pope Leo XIV received Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez in an audience at the Vatican this Saturday, at a time of tension between that country and the United States.
The audience between the American pontiff and the minister was confirmed in the Vatican’s daily bulletin, in which Rodríguez is mentioned as “special correspondent” of the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Bruno Rodríguez later confirmed the meeting on his profile on the social network X, in a message with two photographs with the Pope.
“I deeply thank His Holiness Leo XIV for the honor of receiving me in audience as special envoy of the president of the Republic of Cuba,” wrote the Cuban leader, without providing further details.
Not Vatican, Rodríguez also met with the Secretary of StateCardinal Pietro Parolin.
The meeting took place at a time of tension between Havana and Washingtonwith the President of the United States, Donald Trump, already stating that his country could choose to “a friendly takeover of Cuba”.
In this context, a week ago, the Vatican also received two North American diplomats: the chargé d’affaires in Havana, Mike Hammer, and the United States ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burh.
The two diplomats were received by the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Paul Richard Gallagher, with whom they discussed the situation in Cuba.
Hammer also met last Wednesday in Rome with a group of Cuban exiles and, in statements to the Spanish agency EFE, stated that he held talks in the Vatican to “see what can be done to try to ensure that change can be achieved peacefully” in Cuba.
Pope Leo XIV himself recently asked Washington and Havana “a sincere and effective dialogue to avoid violence and any action that could increase the suffering of the Cuban people.”
In recent days, the pontiff also received in audience the bishop of Guantánamo and Baracoa, Monsignor Silvano Pedroso Montalvo, while the other prelates residing on the island were unable to travel to the Vatican for the traditional ‘ad limina’ visit, which they must carry out every five years to present the work done in their dioceses, due to fuel shortages.
