Pope meets Venezuelan opposition leader Machado in surprise audience

Pope Leo XIV met with Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado of Venezuela (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelanopposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican.

The meeting, which hadn’t been previously included in the list of Leo’s planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details.