{"id":621542,"date":"2026-05-03T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621542\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:12:08","slug":"rubio-to-visit-rome-meet-pope-leo-after-trump-row-in-attempt-to-thaw-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621542\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio to visit Rome, meet Pope Leo after Trump row in attempt to \u2018thaw\u2019 relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Pope Leo on a trip to Rome this week, in the wake of the pontiff\u2019s clash with US President Donald Trump, a Vatican source said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The source confirmed Italian media reports about the meeting, which newspapers said would take place on Thursday in an attempt to \u201cthaw\u201d relations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It comes just weeks after Trump\u2019s extraordinary criticism of Pope Leo XIV over the Catholic leader\u2019s anti-war rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An Italian government source earlier told Agence France-Presse that Rubio would also meet Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Rubio had asked for a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of Trump\u2019s closest European allies, whom he turned on after she defended the pope, the source added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Media reports said he was also expected to meet Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, amid a deepening rift in transatlantic ties over the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Pope Leo on a trip to Rome this week, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,205273,138182,269398,12,6797,11349,247109,801,6801,643,129,5855,3,201134,253096,81424,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-621542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antonio-tajani","tag-cameroon","tag-corriere-della-sera","tag-donald-trump","tag-germany","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-guido-crosetto","tag-iran","tag-italy","tag-marco-rubio","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-pietro-parolin","tag-pope-leo","tag-rome","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}