A video of the meeting provided by the Vatican showed a smiling King greeting the pontiff, then speaking briefly through a translator, but no audio was provided. She tweeted after that the meeting was “#lifechanging.”
“The words that the pope recalled of my father, those which resonate in his heart, of peace, nonviolence, respect for the dignity of every human being, the centrality of what is human, is truly crucial today,” King said, according to an Italian translation provided by the station.
The 54-year-old King is the youngest child of Martin and Coretta Scott King and the chief executive officer of the King Center in Atlanta.