Vice President J.D. Vance handed alongside a letter from President Trump and first girl Melania Trump to Pope Leo XIV inviting him to the White Home.
Mr. Vance traveled this weekend to Rome to attend the brand new pontiff’s inaugural Sunday Mass.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned on the press briefing Monday that the letter prolonged “heat needs” and invited them “as quickly as they probably may come.”
Ms. Leavitt mentioned the assembly was good [and] productive.”
The vice chairman met briefly with Pope Leo on the Vatican on Monday earlier than Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the go to, adopted by their spouses and the bigger delegation from the USA.
Leo, the primary U.S.-born pope, put the letter on his desk. He was heard saying “sooner or later,” in video footage offered by Vatican Media.
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Mr. Vance additionally gifted the pope a Chicago Bears T-shirt with Leo’s identify on it and a replica of works by St. Augustine. The pope, previously Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago and is an Augustinian missionary.
The pope gave the vice chairman a bronze sculpture with “Peace is a fragile flower” written in Italian and an image ebook of the papal residences within the Apostolic Palace.
In the course of the assembly, there “was an alternate of views on some present worldwide points, calling for respect for humanitarian legislation and worldwide legislation in areas of battle and for a negotiated resolution between the events concerned,” a press release from the Vatican mentioned after the assembly.
• This text is predicated partially on wire service reviews.
