According to the White House, US President Joe Biden and a Vatican representative spoke on Tuesday about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the deportation of Ukrainian children.
Biden and Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi spoke about the Vatican’s support for the repatriation of Ukrainian children who were forcibly deported as well as the papacy’s efforts to provide “humanitarian aid to address the widespread suffering caused by Russia’s continuing aggression in Ukraine,” according to a statement from the White House.
Pope Francis requested that Zuppi, the archbishop of Bologna and head of the Italian Episcopal Conference, visit the White House, according to the Biden administration.
Only the second Roman Catholic to hold the office of president of the United States, Biden also expressed “his wishes for Pope Francis’s continued ministry and global leadership and welcomed the recent nomination of a US archbishop as cardinal,” according to the White House.
