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This R&D provides resources on President Obama’s recent visit with Pope Francis that took place last week in Vatican City.  The meeting was of interest to political observers due to Catholic concerns about the Affordable Care Act and President Obama’s support for abortion rights and gay marriage. President Obama claimed that he and Pope Francis discussed world peace and solving global poverty, but the Vatican said that the two men discussed religious freedom and immigration reform.  This was the second meeting between President Obama and a sitting pope, as he met with Pope Benedict XVI in July 2009.