By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - The Vatican hosted a closed-door conference Friday with top officials from the Biden administration, finance ministers, left-wing economists, and heads of the World Bank, African Union, Rockefeller Foundation and the IMF... Pope Francis welcomed to the Vatican Biden's Envoy for Climate John Kerry on the morning of the conference. United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen will address the forum online... The high-level conference held Friday by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) was closed to the press and was not relayed live on the Vatican News media channels, as is customary.