Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a two-day visit to Vatican City and Italy Thursday by meeting Pope Leo XIV, his second audience with the American-born pontiff in less than a year. Rubio, a ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican raised the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” in talks Thursday with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who came to Rome on a fence-mending visit after ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio left the Vatican on Thursday after an audience with Pope Leo XIV. His visit was intended to mend ties after US President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the Pope. The ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly planning to travel to the Vatican and Italy this week for meetings aimed at steadying relations after public spats between President Donald Trump, Pope Leo ...

ROME — Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, the first female spiritual leader of Anglicans around the globe, met and prayed Monday with Pope Leo XIV in a closed-door encounter at the Vatican that ...

The Vatican backed up the Pentagon in pushing back against news reports claiming a meeting earlier this year between the Holy See’s then-envoy to the U.S. and a top Pentagon official turned heated, ...