Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in tense visit to Vatican as US presidential vote nears

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ROME (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Rome on Wednesday (Sept 30), just a month ahead of the US presidential elections and hot on the heels of a diplomatic breach with the Vatican, that experts see as an effort to win conservative Catholic votes.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ROME - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Rome on Wednesday , just a month ahead of the US presidential elections and hot on the heels of a diplomatic breach with the Vatican, that experts see as an effort to win conservative Catholic votes.

Instead, Mr Pompeo will speak at a symposium organised by the Holy See's US embassy in the Italian capital on Wednesday, before meeting the Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Thursday. Powerful Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga said the US intervention was unwelcome, and clearly linked to the election campaign.

Professor Massimo Faggioli, a theologian at the Villanova Catholic University in the US, said there was a concerted effort under way to"turn a certain anti-Francis and anti-Vatican sentiment, which has become more visible in recent years, into votes for Trump".According to the Pew Research Centre, around half of Catholic registered voters describe themselves as Republicans or lean towards the Republican Party, while roughly the same identify with or lean towards the Democratic Party.

 

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