President who is famously not a devout Catholic is meeting the Pontiff for the fourth time
President Michael D Higgins will meet His Holiness Pope Francis for the fourth time at a special Private Audience in the Vatican today.
“President Higgins has praised the contribution which Pope Francis has made to the vital debate on these issues, including in his recent encyclical Laudate Deum.”Today’s meeting will be the fourth between President Higgins and Pope Francis, following previous meetings in the Vatican in 2017 and 2021 and at Áras an Uachtaráin in 2018. President Higgins also met with Pope Francis at the Papal Inauguration in 2013.
Following his Private Audience with Pope Francis, President Higgins will hold a bilateral meeting with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin.
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