{"id":482672,"date":"2025-09-13T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-pope-receives-the-credentials-of-trumps-new-ambassador-to-the-vatican\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:49:19","slug":"the-pope-receives-the-credentials-of-trumps-new-ambassador-to-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/the-pope-receives-the-credentials-of-trumps-new-ambassador-to-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope receives the credentials of Trump’s new ambassador to the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"Vatican City.-<\/strong> Pope Leo XIV<\/strong><\/a> has received this Saturday the credentials of the new US ambassador appointed by President Donald Trump, Brian Francis Burch<\/strong>, as confirmed by the Holy See<\/a><\/strong> in a statement.\n\nThe act took place in the Apostolic Palace<\/strong> and implies the beginning of Burch’s mission to the Vatican, four months after the election of the first American pope in history.\n\nBurch was the leader of the conservative political advocacy group ‘CatholicVote’ and was appointed by Trump on December 20, 2024, shortly after winning the election to return to the White House.\n\nThe Republican, then still president-elect, considered Ambassador Burch as “a devout Catholic and father of nine children”<\/strong> who, he said, “has demonstrated exceptional leadership helping to build one of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the country.”\n\n“He represented me well during the last elections, obtaining more Catholic votes than any presidential candidate in history,” Trump stated in 2024, when Washington and the Vatican reached 40 years of diplomatic relations.\n\n\n
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The Vatican is an important center of world diplomacy and closely follows key issues in international politics, including current conflicts such as the war in Ukraine or in the Middle East and in other areas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Trump’s move before the Conclave: Did he influence the election of Pope Leo XIV?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSo it was that on April 26th, an unusual encounter took place during the funeral of Pope Francis between Trump and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, following disagreements between the two.\n\nLeo XIV has received in recent months several leaders<\/strong> such as the Ukrainian president, and has held a telephone conversation with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, asking him for “a gesture that favors peace” in Ukraine.\n\nHe has also met in the Vatican with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the midst of the Gaza war.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vatican City.- Pope Leo XIV has received this Saturday the credentials of the new US ambassador appointed by President Donald Trump, Brian Francis Burch, as confirmed by the Holy See in a statement. The act took place in the Apostolic Palace and implies the beginning of Burch’s mission to the Vatican, four months after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40513,40343,40230],"class_list":["post-482672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-credentials","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21z2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.1000.563.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.1000.563.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}