President Donald Trump and Pope Francis held a private 30-minute meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday laden with religious symbolism and ancient protocol.

Vatican leaders seem quietly confident that the meeting will go well.

The new cardinals named by Pope Francis come from El Salvador, Laos, Mali, Spain and Sweden.

The conflict is almost certain to be on the agenda for discussion when President Trump comes to the Vatican.

Pope says he will not pre-judge Trump and that Marie Collins had some good reasons for her resignation from the sex abuse commission.

Pope Francis made history by canonizing Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the first child saints who are not martyrs.

One million pilgrims are expected to join Pope Francis in Fatima on May 12 to 13 for the centenary celebration of the apparitions of Our Lady to three Portuguese shepherd children.

On Saturday Pope Francis will canonize two of the children who saw the Marian apparitions in 1917.

The Vatican made the announcement after a meeting between Pope Francis and Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto leader of Myanmar.

The situation in North Korea, he added, has been heated for a long time, "but now it seems it has heated up too much, no?"