US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo on the Vatican on Thursday, at a time of accelerating tensions following President Donald Trump’s repeated assaults on the Catholic chief over the Iran conflict.
Rubio’s assembly with Leo was an indication of a “robust” relationship between the Vatican and the US, stated a State Division spokesman. The Vatican didn’t instantly give any remark concerning the assembly.
Leo, the primary American pope, drew Trump’s ire after turning into a agency critic of the conflict on Iran and the Trump administration’s hardline anti-immigration insurance policies. Trump has criticised Leo, calling the pope ‘weak on crime’.