President Obama Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican

Posted on April 2, 2014

President Obama met Pope Francis at the Vatican for the first time last week. The two leaders had a private meeting that lasted about an hour. The Pope gave President Obama two medallions and a copy of Evangelii Gaudium. President Obama gave the Pope a box of vegetable and fruit seeds from The White House garden.

The Pope must also have given President Obama some rosary beads as Obama recently gifted some rosary beads from Pope Francis to Nancy Pelosi. Take a look:


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