{"id":22300,"date":"2026-05-05T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-meeting-with-pope-will-include-frank-conversation-about-policies-ambassador-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:14","slug":"rubio-meeting-with-pope-will-include-frank-conversation-about-policies-ambassador-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rubio-meeting-with-pope-will-include-frank-conversation-about-policies-ambassador-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio meeting with pope will include &#8216;frank conversation&#8217; about policies, ambassador says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio&rsquo;s meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday will include a &ldquo;frank conversation&rdquo; about disagreements between the Vatican and the Trump administration, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See said Tuesday.&nbsp; Brian Burch, who took up his post in September, said &ldquo;fraternity and authentic dialogue&rdquo; will guide the talks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5864013-marco-rubio-pope-leo-xiv-vatican-meeting\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio&rsquo;s meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday will include a &ldquo;frank conversation&rdquo; about disagreements between the Vatican and the Trump administration, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See said Tuesday.&nbsp; Brian Burch, who took up his post in September, said &ldquo;fraternity and authentic dialogue&rdquo; will guide the talks&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}