The Pope and the President of France met for an hour at the Vatican.
-'How are you?'
-'Very well.'
It was a cordial meeting.
-“Say hello to your wife for me.”
President Emmanuel Macron gave the Pope one of the first biographies of St. Ignatius of Loyola, written in 1585 by Giovanni Pietro Maffei; and a modern work by French academic François Sureau.
The Pope gave him his important pontifical documents, with this joke.
-'I hope they don't bore you.”
It was their second meeting. The first one was in 2018.
-'I've worn you out with these stories....'
-'You didn't bore me.'
-'Thank you for your patience. Thank you.'
President Macron also met with Secretariat of State officials. They discussed matters like the climate crisis, the French presidency of the EU Council; and France's work in Lebanon, the Middle East and Africa.
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