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Rubio arrives at Vatican to meet Pope Leo amid Trump attacks
Key takeaways
- The closed-door meeting is expected to take about half an hour on Thursday, and then Rubio will meet his counterpart, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
- This is the first known meeting between the pope and a Trump government official in nearly a year.
- “I imagine they’ll talk about everything that has happened in recent days,” he was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
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The closed-door meeting is expected to take about half an hour on Thursday, and then Rubio will meet his counterpart, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
This is the first known meeting between the pope and a Trump government official in nearly a year. Parolin said the meeting was requested by the US, and Leo would listen carefully to what Rubio had to say.
“I imagine they’ll talk about everything that has happened in recent days,” he was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
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