U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Friday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital and he found the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”.
Francis, 86, left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday, nine days after surgery to repair an abdominal hernia.
In 2015, Francis wrote a landmark encyclical, the highest form of papal writing, on the need to protect the environment, combat climate change and reduce use of fossil fuels.
Kerry is having a series of meetings ahead of COP28, the latest U.N. climate summit that is to be held at the end of this year in Dubai..
Kerry meets Pope Francis privately
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