US underlines 'strong' Vatican ties after Rubio meets pope

VATICAN City, Holy See – The US State Department underlined its “strong relationship” with the Vatican on Thursday after talks between top diplomat Marco Rubio and Pope Leo XIV, following Donald Trump’s astonishing attack on the first US pontiff. “The conversations today were friendly and constructive,” a State Department official told AFP following the US secretary of state’s private audience at the Vatican. READ: Trump lambasts Pope Leo, extending feud over Iran war Rubio’s visit came after US President Trump accused Leo, the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, of being “weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy” after […]...

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