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Pope Leo Meets Archbishop Sarah Mullally in Historic Vatican Encounter

Pope Leo, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, met with Archbishop Sarah Mullally, the first woman to lead the Anglican Communion, at the Vatican on Monday. The historic encounter brought together the leaders of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and 85 million Anglicans for the first time, nearly 500 years after the churches split in acrimony in 1534. The two exchanged gifts, prayed together in a 17th-century chapel, and discussed the need for unity despite new problems that have arisen in recent decades.