US Vice President JD Vance handed a letter to Pope Leon XIV from President Donald Trump during the meeting on Monday. A spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt gave what was inside.
Key facts:
- Pope Leon XIV met on Monday with the US Vice President JD Vance.
- Vance gave the Pope a letter.
- Until now, there have been three visits of popes in the White House in history.
– The vice president handed a letter from the President and the First Lady, passing on to the Pope cordially greetings and inviting him to the White House as soon as he could come – said Karoline Leavitt during Monday's briefing.
She also assessed that Vance's meeting with the new Pope was good and productive. Vance himself stated that he raised “a number of diplomatic issues” in the conversation. – I think Vaticanand especially this pope will be a great advocate of world peace, and I service the president who – I think – is an advocate of the world (peace), so we will find many important things to cooperate – said the vice president.
Source: Vatican Media/EPA/PAP
On Sunday, Vance and Secretary of State Marek Rubio took part in the inaugural mass of the first American pope.
Three visits in history
So far, only three times in history have been visited by the popes in the White House. The last such visit took place in 2015, when Pope Francis He met with Barack Obama during a pilgrimage to the United States.
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The first head of the Catholic Church who visited the White House was John Paul IIwhich Jimmy Carter accepted there in 1979. The second papal visit took place in 2005, when Benedict XIV met with Georg W. Bush.
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