Rubio visits Rome aiming to restore White Home ties with Pope Leo

ROME — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday with Pope Leo XIV with relations between the Vatican and the White Home at a low level over President Donald Trump’s repeated, direct criticism of the U.S.-born pontiff who has emerged as a number one international critic of the battle in Iran and of the administration’s invocation of God in pursuing army motion that has resulted within the deaths of 1000’s.