{"id":342,"date":"2025-11-20T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/11\/20\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-illinois-governor-pritzker\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:13:04","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-illinois-governor-pritzker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/2025\/11\/20\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-with-illinois-governor-pritzker\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Meets With Illinois Governor Pritzker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: Who is Pope Leo XIV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope and a native of Illinois, known for advocating for the poor and less fortunate.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Who did Pope Leo XIV meet with at the Vatican?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV met with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker at the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What was a key topic of discussion during the meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Immigration enforcement actions in Chicago and Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s moral leadership on this issue were discussed during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What invitation was extended to Pope Leo XIV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV received an invitation to return to his hometown of Chicago, with an optimistic outlook for a future visit.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What gifts did Governor Pritzker present to Pope Leo XIV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Gifts included art from an incarcerated woman, books about Lincoln and the Illinois Governor&#8217;s Mansion, and a pack of &#8220;Da Pope&#8221; American mild ale.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What is the Illinois Catholic Conference urging Governor Pritzker to do regarding assisted suicide legislation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The Illinois Catholic Conference is urging Governor Pritzker to veto assisted suicide legislation and expand palliative care programs instead.<\/p>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-illinois-governor-pritzker. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VBd8H858cV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-illinois-governor-pritzker\">UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV meets with his home state\u2019s governor<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV meets with his home state\u2019s governor&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-illinois-governor-pritzker\/embed#?secret=WrTH8wghSe#?secret=VBd8H858cV\" data-secret=\"VBd8H858cV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Who is Pope Leo XIV? A: Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope and a native of Illinois, known for advocating for the poor and less fortunate. Q: Who did Pope Leo XIV meet with at the Vatican? A: Pope Leo XIV met with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois First Lady MK [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewtn.dk\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}