President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrived at the Vatican Friday for their closed-door meeting with Pope Francis.

Joe Biden has arrived at the Vatican for a closed-door meeting with Pope Francis, during which the two are expected to discuss climate change and social injustice.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will meet with Pope Francis when the president is in Rome later this month to participate in the G20 leaders summit.

The pontiff listened intently as a Polish priest who accompanied Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, told him of her story at a general audience in the Vatican’s San Damaso Courtyard.

Pope Francis praised Prince Philip for his ‘distinguished record’ of public service and his devotion to his marriage and offered his ‘heartfelt condolences’ to Her Majesty.

Pope Francis released a white dove, a symbol of peace, as he prayed for those killed in Iraq’s wars amid the ruins of four churches in Mosul’s old city that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2014.

Pope Francis boarded a plane at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport Friday for a flight to the Iraqi capital Baghdad where he will begin a four-day visit to the country – the first by a pope.