US President Barack Obama is at this very moment meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican.

Fox News‘ live coverage showed the two men meeting, shaking hands and posing to photographers and cameramen. After that leaders of USA and Vatican sat down at a desk and began talking about earthly matters.

“It’s a great honour,” Obama told the Pope, according to FoxNews. They exchanged more pleasantries before reporters and photographers were ushered out of the room.

The pope asked about the Group of Eight summit, Obama said it “was very productive.”

Before meeting the Pope, Obama was greeted by Swiss Guards and Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarciso Bertone.

Obama’s aide Denis McDonough said before the meeting that “there are issues on which they’ll agree, issues on which they’ll disagree, and issues on which they’ll agree to continue to work on going forward”.

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