Pope Francis and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson met for 30 minutes to discuss shared values — including the concern over secularism.
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met with Pope Francis on Saturday at the Vatican. From left are Elder Massimo De Feo, president of the Mormon Church Russell M. Nelson, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles acting president M. Russell Ballard and Elder Alessandro Dini Ciacci.
“What a sweet, wonderful man he is,” Nelson said of Francis, the Mormon Church news site reported, “and how fortunate the Catholic people are to have such a gracious, concerned, loving and capable leader.” In the United States, for example, 97 percent of Mormons consider themselves Christian, compared with just more than half of U.S. adults who recognize Mormonism as a Christian faith, according to a 2016 analysis by the Pew Research Center. Asked to volunteer one word that best describes the group, Pew found, the most commonly offered response by non-Mormons was “cult.”
Nelson and Francis, she said, are unique. “Are there any other men but those two who believe they stand in the shoes of St. Peter?” The news site noted that a meeting between men in these positions “would have been unimaginable to leaders and members in both churches” until at least the 1960s, when followers officially were told to limit interactions with other faiths, including weddings and funerals.
Both sides have become more open and, in the United States especially, have shared the cause of protecting traditional religious values in public life, such as government-affiliated faith groups’ choice not to offer health benefits to same-sex couples or to place foster or adopted children in their homes.
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