Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to travel to Italy this week and meet Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, a Vatican source told Reuters, a sit-down that Vice President JD Vance will not attend, despite his own public efforts to build a relationship with the pontiff.
The meeting comes almost a year after both men stood alongside Pope Leo together on May 19, 2025. This time, Rubio goes alone. And the timing lands in the middle of a stretch where Vance’s standing inside the administration and within the broader Republican coalition has drawn fresh scrutiny.
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