US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Heads to the Vatican for ‘Frank’ Talk With Pope Leo as Trump Escalates Vatican Tensions ...

Trump has accused the first American pope of weakening the West, putting at odds two of the world's most powerful people.

Pavlo Smytsynuk has been the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Associate Research Scholar at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Religion at Princeton University since the Russian invasion ...

Marco Rubio met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican as tensions rise between the Trump administration and the Holy See.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, taking up the Holy See’s longstanding offer after Pope Leo XIV vowed to personally ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened a fence-mending visit to the Vatican on Thursday after President Donald Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo XIV and the U.S.-Israeli war in ...

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, meets with Pope Leo XIV in the pope's private library during a private audience at the Vatican, Thursday, Sep. 4, 2025. (Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media via AP) ...

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states, and Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, had a phone call on Friday. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican secretary for ...

People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.) Listen A “preventative war” could make the whole world at “risk ...