Pope Leo XIV to offer the Vatican for Russia-Ukraine discussions

Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, will offer to host leaders from Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican to broker a peace deal in their ongoing war, a top Catholic official said Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin dodged discussions in Turkey earlier this week.The new pope would "if necessary, make the Vatican, the Holy See, available for a direct meeting between the two parties," Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See's secretary of state, told reporters in Rome. "It is an ava