skipToContent
🌐All policy

Rubio to meet Pope Leo as Trump keeps up attacks on pontiff

Al-Monitor Global
Rubio to meet Pope Leo as Trump keeps up attacks on pontiff
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Pope Leo at the Vatican on Thursday, in a potentially fraught encounter as President Donald Trump has continued a series of disparaging attacks on the Catholic leader over the Iran war. Rubio, who also serves as Trump's national security adviser, was due to arrive at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace around 11:15 a.m. (0915 GMT) for the visit, the first between the pope and a Trump cabinet official in nearly a year.
Share
Original story
Continue reading at Al-Monitor
www.al-monitor.com
Read full article

Summary generated from the RSS feed of Al-Monitor. All article rights belong to the original publisher. Click through to read the full piece on www.al-monitor.com.