Rubio's visit comes after Trump accused Pope Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".

Rubio's visit comes after Trump accused Pope Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".

Pope Leo XIV and Secretary of State Marco Rubio jointly committed at a meeting on Thursday to improving relations between the Vatican and Washington.

May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, a moment of diplomacy in the wake of President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the Catholic leader.

Pope Leo and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio jointly committed at a meeting on Thursday to improving relations between the Vatican and Washington, at a time when President Donald Trump has ‌repeatedly attacked the pontiff. Leo and Rubio "renewed the shared commitment to fostering good bilateral relations," the Vatican…

Before his departure for Rome, Rubio remarked that ‘there’s a lot to talk about with the Vatican’.

Pope Leo drew President Donald Trump's ire after becoming a firm critic of the US-Israeli war on Iran and his administration's hardline anti-immigration policies.

The secretary of State managed to smooth things over with the Catholic leader following weeks of attacks from President Trump.

During a time of considerable tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Leo the 14th, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the Vatican on Thursday morning, May 7 and met with the Pope — who has been an outspoken critic of Trump's war against Iran. State Department spokesman Tommy Piggo...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio paid a fence‑mending visit to the Vatican on Thursday, highlighting close ties between the two sides after President Donald Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV over his…

The relations have been strained over the president’s repeated broadsides about Pope Leo’s calls for peace and dialogue to end the U.S.-Israeli war.

Pope Leo XIV received American Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican on Thursday morning.