"The Pope is very pleased for having met with a wise man", was the
official report from the Holy See following the 45 minute private
audience of Francis with Uruguayan president Jose Mujica, the longest so
far with a head of state. Although Mujica is a declared atheist and did
not attend the inauguration of the first Latinamerican pope last March,
he did request an interview with Francis, which took place on Saturday.
Note: Uruguayan president Jose Mujica donates 90 percent of his
wages to charities, lives with his wife in a modest farmhouse instead of
the presidential palace and drives himself in a decades-old Volkswagen
Beetle.
