On October 10, Pope Francis received Alfredo del Mazo Maza, the governor of the State of Mexico (map), the nation’s most populous state.

Gov. del Mazo tweeted about his meetings with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the Sostituto (officially, the Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State). The governor said that he and Cardinal Parolin discussed efforts “to combat poverty and promote equality between women and men.”