The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, went to Vatican To meet High sites for the Catholic Church Those who strongly criticized their administration policies, in the first talks of this type of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
Vans, the Catholic, who faced Pope Francis, met with the migrant measures of the President of the United States, with the Cardinal Petro Parolin, the Vatican State Minister, and the director of Francisco.
Both sides maintained “friendly talks” that included “exchanging opinions about International situation“According to the Vatican statement after the meeting.
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Vans and Parolin spoke, “especially about countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with special attention to immigrants, refugees and prisoners,” says the statement.
Vans said in a statement that he and Cardinal discussed Catholicism in the United StatesThe issue of Christians is persecution in the world and “President Trump’s commitment to restore world peace.”
Francisco, who limits his general appearance by order of doctors while healing dual pneumonia, did not participate in the meeting. Vans Italy visits during the Easter holiday.
The Pope, Parliament and other Vatican officials criticized many Trump administration policies, including plans for Millions of migrants are deported In the United States and its generalized discounts of external aid and national care programs.
“This relationship with the United States is a very high priority at this time for the Vatican,” said Massimo Vagioli, an Italian academic of the University of Villanova, who closely followed the papacy.
Francisco described it as a “shame” to suppress the Trump administration. Vans, who became Catholicism in 2019, cited Catholic teaching for the Middle Ages to justify the suppression of immigration.
The Pope refuted the theological concept that Vans used to defend repression in a Unusual open message To the Catholic Bishop in the Trump administration in February, they described Trump’s plan as a “major crisis” for the United States.
The Pope said: “What was built on the basis of strength, and not about the truth of the same dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.”
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We pray for the meeting to lead to a positive and attractive dialogue. “
The Vatican statement says that during the Vans and Marong meeting, “the hope of calm cooperation” was expressed between the church and the government of the United States.
With Reuters information.
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