By Joshua McElwee

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo was presented on Friday with a copy of a U.S. Senate resolution commemorating the victims of a shooting in August at a Minnesota Catholic Church and school, given to him by Senator Amy Klobuchar, one of the bill’s co-sponsors.

Leo, the first U.S. pope, is seen holding the resolution in a Vatican handout photo while standing next to Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota who was part of a papal event on Friday.

Two children were killed and 18 teachers and children were wounded on August 27 when a gunman fired through stained-glass windows at Annunciation Catholic School.

The horrific attack renewed debate in the U.S. about gun control, while days after the event Leo made an unusual intervention at a weekly Sunday prayer gathering to ask t

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