
Biden arrives at the Vatican for audience with Pope Francis in a symbolic meeting for America's second Catholic president
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The last time President Joe Biden visited the Vatican, he was still reeling from the loss of his son Beau to cancer a year earlier.
The reason for his 2016 visit was the Third International Regenerative Medicine Conference, and -- in a speech delivered with a massive bronze sculpture of the Resurrection as his backdrop -- Biden made an impassioned call for developing new cures for the disease that took his son's life.
But he also recalled a moment of kindness from his host, Pope Francis, who visited the United States in the months following Beau's death and gathered with Biden's extended family as he departed the states from the Philadelphia International Airport.
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