{"id":42579,"date":"2023-05-04T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2023\/05\/04\/united-states-speaker-of-the-house-meets-with-pope-francis-in-apostolic-palace\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:19:27","slug":"united-states-speaker-of-the-house-meets-with-pope-francis-in-apostolic-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/united-states-speaker-of-the-house-meets-with-pope-francis-in-apostolic-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Speaker of the House meets with Pope Francis in Apostolic Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis met with the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the Speaker expressed President Biden's fondness for the Pope.<\/p>\n<p><em>He considers you a close friend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy presented Pope Francis with a commemorative plate.<\/p>\n<p><em>This says the Congressional seal on it, but it's a plate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pope explained that he keeps a medal that the President gave him on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis returned the gesture, giving the Speaker of the House a metal statue of an olive branch as a sign of peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>I will put this on my desk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting, the Pope gave McCarthy a medal celebrating his 10 years as successor to St. Peter before asking for his prayers.<\/p>\n<p><em>I will see the President Tuesday and I'll tell him that you'll have a plan for him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Yes. Pray for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will pray for you every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis met with Joe Biden for the first during his presidency in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>KG<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope gave the Speaker a medal commemorating his 10 years as the successor to St. Peter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nJdVDByWS8A","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/busspeakerofthehouseeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/busspeakerofthehouseint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}