Rubio visits Rome aiming to repair White House ties with Pope Leo 79.5%
The Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli, Adam Taylor - 5/7/2026, 6:57 AM
Negativity Bias 34.6% - Appeal to Emotion 20.7% - Halo Effect 17.6%
ROME — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday with Pope Leo XIV with relations between the Vatican and the White House at a low point over President Donald Trump’s repeated, direct criticism of the U.S.-born pontiff who has emerged as a leading global critic of the war in Iran and of the administration’s invocation of God in... more