PM Anthony Albanese formally invites Pope Leo XIV to Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has had a private audience with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City.  Mr Albanese joined world leaders and dignitaries at Pope Leo’s inaugural mass at St. Peter's Square over the weekend.

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00:00Well, the Prime Minister is now departing Rome, back to Canberra.

00:07He left on a high note, securing a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, the first Prime

00:14Minister in some 16 years to receive that honour.

00:18The two men talked about conflicts around the world, in particular the conflicts that

00:23we're seeing in places like Gaza, like Myanmar and Ukraine.

00:28The Pope raised all three of those conflicts in his homily on Sunday, when he talked about

00:33the need to bring peace to an increasingly troubled world.

00:38The Prime Minister also extended an invitation to the Pope to attend the International Eucharistic

00:44Congress which will occur in Sydney in 2028, drawing tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims

00:50around the world to Australia.

00:53The government's been lobbying the Pope quite hard to attend in the hope that it will deliver

00:57a real boost to the event and bring joy to the hearts of thousands of Catholics around

01:03Australia.

01:04The Prime Minister also gifted an Indigenous artwork to the Pope, one that he hopes will

01:10resonate with the Pope's interest in Australia.

01:13The Prime Minister's now returning back home to Canberra, but on the way there'll be a lightning-quick

01:19stop-off in Singapore, where he'll meet Lawrence Wong, Singapore's re-elected Prime Minister,

01:24before returning back to the political fray in Canberra.

01:28The Prime Minister.

01:29The Prime Minister.

01:30The Prime Minister.

01:31The Prime Minister.

01:32The Prime Minister.

01:33I will see you all the most recently.

01:35The Prime Minister.

01:36The Prime Minister.

01:37Sure, it is.

01:38I have a very brief music that I have written, I have a feedback from the current

01:39University of France.

01:40You ask where you are?

01:42Yes.

01:43Well, let me look at the line.

01:44You can see it for the last week, the last week, I have to share that all台

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