{"id":44766,"date":"2021-10-07T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/10\/07\/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-meets-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:51:00","slug":"german-chancellor-angela-merkel-meets-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/10\/07\/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-meets-with-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A troop of Swiss Guards escorted German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to Pope Francis' private audience hall for her \u201cfarewell\u201d visit before she steps down from her position.<\/p>\n<p>This was the seventh meeting between the Chancellor and the Pope at the Vatican. They discussed the European Union, biodiversity, global conflicts and abuse within the Church.<\/p>\n<p>After their conversation, Chancellor Merkel presented Pope Francis with a number of books. One was a three-volume set of commentary on the year's Sunday Gospel readings.<\/p>\n<p><em>-'A bible written in light terms. Easy, simple.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other was a book about Michelangelo written by art historian Horst Bredekamp, who attended the meeting with the Pope as Chancellor Merkel's honorary guest.<\/p>\n<p><em>-'Inside are 50 years of my work on the Vatican.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pope gave the chancellor a small bronze replica of the Holy Door. And a collection of the important texts of his pontificate.<\/p>\n<p><em>-'I signed it today for you.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a farewell meeting that concluded with a fitting \u201csee you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>-'Arrivederci.'<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>CT<\/p>\n<p>VM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 7, 2021. It is one of the German Chancellor's \u201cfarewell\u201d visits with world leaders before stepping down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R3hdnhjUR8k","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bincontromerkeleng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bincontromerkelint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766"}],"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=44766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}