with a far different American group coming through Rome — a delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after Pompeo infuriated Vatican officials by criticizing the church’s diplomacy with China.The Vatican, as is customary, did not provide details on the nature of the meeting, other than to say Francis met with the group., a Vatican official had reached out to set up the meeting.
A Vatican Media photo of the meeting, which took place in the papal library, showed that neither Francis nor the visitors were wearing masks. Throughout the pandemic, the pope has — and apparently asked visitors to do the same. Even people who have arrived at the Vatican wearing masks remove them when meeting with the pontiff, in a practice that has perplexed outsiders and caused concern among some Vatican officials.In a statement after the meeting, the players association said the athletes who met with Francis had a chance to “discuss their individual and collective efforts addressing social and economic injustice and inequality occurring in their communities.
Their meeting comes in the wake of an extraordinary season that was paused because of the emerging pandemic and then restarted in a Disney World campus bubble — where players jerseys’ had social justice slogans and the court was painted with the words “Black Lives Matter.”
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