Rome – Papa Leo XIV And Vice President JD Vance, in the Vatican, on Monday before a wave or diplomatic efforts led by the United States aimed at progressing in a high fire in the War of Russia in Ukraine. Vance, a Catholic convert, had taken the United States delegation to the Formal Mass Open the Pontificate Or the first American Pope. On Monday he joined him at the meeting of the meeting, Marco Rubio, who is also Catholic, said Vance spokesman Luke Schroeder.
“There was an exchange of opinions on some current international issues, asking for respect for humanitarian law and international law in conflict areas and a negotiated solution between the parties involved,” according to a Vatican statement after their meeting.
There was also a usual exchange of gifts, with Vance presenting the Pontiff born in Chicago to Bears Jersey with the name of “Pope Leo” and the number “XIV”. The Pope is also a fan of white socks, his Confirmed brother Earlier this month.
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Vance’s office said he also gave the Pope two books of St. Augustine, “the city of God” and “in” Christian doctrine. “The vice president’s office said Vance chose St. Augustine as his holy patron when he became Catholicism and was baptized in 2019. Pope Leo had been head of the Order of the Augustian world.
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The Vatican lists the Vance delegation as the first of several private audiences, Leo was having on Monday with people who had come to Rome to Rome for their inaugural mass, including other Christian leaders and a group of faithful from their former diocese in Chiclayo.
The Vatican, which was largely marginal duration of the first three years of Russian invasion of Ukraine, has offered to organize any peace conversation while the humanitarian efforts continue to facilitate the swaps of the prisoners and bring together the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine.
After greeting Leo Letterly at the end of Sunday’s Mass, Vance spent the rest of the day in separate meetings, including With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy. Hello, with the president of the European Union commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who said he expected the trial meeting to be a “new beginning.”
At night, Meloni spoke on the phone with President Trump and several other European leaders before Trump’s expected call with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on Monday, according to a statement from the Meloni office.
Leo, former Cardinal Robert Prevost, is an Augustinian missionary born in Chicago who spent most of his ministry in Chiclayo, a commercial city of around 800,000 on the northern Pacific coast of Peru.
In the days after its May 8 elections, Leo has promised “all efforts” to help bring Ukraine to peace. He has also entailed his continuity with Pope Francis, who made the care of migrants and the poor a priority of his pontificate.
Before his choice, Prevost shared news articles on X that criticized Trump’s administrations plans for Mass deportations Or migrants.
Vance was one of the last foreign officials to meet with Francis before the death of the Argentine Pope on April 21. The two had tangled up on migration, with Francis publicly rebuking the Deportation Plan of the Trump Administration and correcting Vance’s theological justification for it.