Vatican, photos of Biden and Pope Francis meeting

(La Presse) The closed conversation between the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and Pope Francis lasted 75 minutes. The chief arrived at the library library shortly before 12.20 and ended the conversation shortly after 13.25. The exit from the library after the exchange of gifts was at 13.40. It’s the longest conversation Bergoglio has had with an American president: The Pope stayed with Barack Obama for 50 minutes and with Donald Trump for 30 minutes. US President Joe Biden gave the Holy Father a hand-woven crochet from the 1930s by famous papal tailor Gamarelli and used by the Jesuits of the Order of the United States, where it is kept in the archives of the Holy Trinity Church, Biden Chapel in Washington. Instead, Pope Francis donated to American leader Il Pellegrino, painted on porcelain, the volumes of Papal Documents, this year’s Message of Peace, signed by the Holy Father, and the Document on Human Fraternity and the Statio Orbis del Mar 27, 2020, published by Lev.