The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s surviving daughter had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday.
The Rev. Bernice King presented the pontiff with the sixth volume of the civil rights leader’s published papers, subtitled “Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963.”
The Vatican made public a video of the meeting. King spoke briefly through a translator, but no audio was provided. She tweeted after that the meeting was “#lifechanging.”
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