Overview
- The Vatican audience, which took place Monday, included a private meeting and joint prayer in the Apostolic Palace.
- Pope León XIV urged greater Christian unity and said it would be a scandal not to work to overcome differences.
- Sarah Mullally is the first woman to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury, a role that leads the Church of England and serves as a global Anglican figurehead.
- Mullally chose Rome for her first foreign trip after her appointment and spent four days visiting major basilicas and meeting Vatican officials.
- Longstanding disputes over papal authority and the Catholic ban on women priests still block full communion, as the churches note 60 years since a 1965 ecumenical declaration.