Pope Francis met privately with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and gave a courtesy visit to Governor General Mary Simon at her residence, the “Citadelle de Québec,” located in Quebec City, on the afternoon of July 27, according to the prime minister’s daily itinerary.
Unlike Pope Francis’s activities in Alberta on July 25 and 26, his meeting with the prime minister was not streamed live on the Vatican website’s “Activities of the Holy Father” media centre.
Pope Francis’s meeting with Trudeau came on the fourth of his six-day “apostolic journey” to Canada. It is the pope’s first day in a province other than Alberta, as he spent his first three days in the Edmonton area and at the pilgrimage site, Lac Ste. Anne….