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Pope Francis Holds Meeting With Google's Executive Chairman

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pope Francis has an official Twitter handle with more than 8 million followers and once held a Google hangout with students from all over the world, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he met with a leader from the tech world today.

At his private studio at the Vatican, the Pontiff met with Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google.

Schmidt gifted the pope a book which had been signed by its Argentine author.

At the end of the meeting, Pope Francis wrote a note with advice for the 22-month-old baby daughter of a member of the google delegation.

Neither Google or the Vatican are commenting about what was discussed during the meeting, which reportedly lasted about 15 minutes.

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