US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Rome and the Vatican this week, an Italian government source said, weeks after President Donald Trump’s stinging criticism of Pope Leo fourteenth.
Italian media reported that Rubio would meet the pontiff himself on Thursday, but there was no immediate confirmation of this.
The government source told newsmen that Rubio would meet Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
The meetings come just weeks after Trump’s extraordinary criticism of Pope Leo over the Catholic leader’s anti-war rhetoric.

 

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