{"id":219968,"date":"2025-10-23T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219968\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:36:08","slug":"king-charles-arrives-at-vatican-to-meet-pope-leo-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219968\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles arrives at Vatican to meet Pope Leo &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King&#8217;s visit sends powerful symbol of reconciliationpublished at 07:48 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:48 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13bf5b1d-a9ac-4e2d-82c9-ef0c272f7ef1.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sean Coughlan<br \/>Royal correspondent, reporting from the Vatican<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Leo in a white tunic with his hand up, speaking into a microphone.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fbdea466-8973-4609-b9ab-17625b6bba17.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King will pray with Pope Leo in a public display of togetherness<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The state visit will be sending powerful symbols of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King, as head of the Church of England, will pray with Pope Leo, head of the Catholic Church, in a public display of togetherness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s the first time that\u2019s happened in a shared church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the afternoon, there will be be another historic connection, when the King attends a service at another church, St Paul\u2019s Outside the Walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This church, which holds the tomb of St Paul, was associated with the English monarchy before the Reformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There\u2019s a special chair made for the King there which throws the visit forward as well as looking into the past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s going to be kept in the church for the King when he returns, or for his heirs and successors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King&#8217;s visit sends powerful symbol of reconciliationpublished at 07:48 BST 07:48 BST Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent, reporting from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-219968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}