After embrace, pope and Argentina’s Milei meet amid speculation Francis might finally go home

Despite their rocky start, Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis appear to have hit it off as they met Monday amid speculation that the Argentine pontiff might finally go home for a visit later this year. The Vatican said the two men met for an hour and 10 minutes, an unusually long audience by Francis’ standards. En route to his audience, Milei stopped his motorcade along the main Via della Conciliazione boulevard leading to the Vatican to greet well-wishers and then continued on to the Apostolic Palace for the meeting.