Nuncio’s Pentagon meeting was ‘frank exchange of ideas,’ officials say

U.S. and Vatican officials described the meeting as ‘tense’ and ‘honest’ but dismiss reports of threats

Pentagon officials have insisted that a January meeting with the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio was a “cordial” and frank conversation, while some Vatican sources have told The Pillar that while no threats were implied or made by U.S. officials, the discussion between defense leaders and Cardinal Christophe Pierre was at times “tense.”

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