Patriarch: Pope to meet Iraqi Shiite leader Sistani in Iraq
Rome, Italy AP Iraq’s top Catholic official said Thursday that a deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad hasn’t thwarted Pope Francis’ plans to visit, and he confirmed the pontiff would meet with the country’s top Shiite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, in a significant highlight of the first-ever papal trip to Iraq. The Chaldean Patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael […]