Russia peace talks in the Vatican marks a significant development for the first US-born pontiff, just as the Trump administration appears to be stepping back from leading negotiations.The Vatican has helped arbitrate delicate matters of diplomacy in the past.

The digitally altered video claims the pope called Trump's policies "a hideous manifestation of white supremacist ideology."

U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV, in his first address to world diplomats, said on Friday that the dignity of migrants had to be respected, possibly putting himself on a collision course with the administration of U.

Vice President JD Vance led the American delegation at the Mass after paying his respects at the tomb of Pope Francis after arriving in Rome late Saturday.

Pope Leo XIV met with representatives of Christian denominations as well as other non-Christian faiths at the Vatican on Monday.