Pope Francis will exchange gifts with US President Donald Trump (c) and US First Lady Melania Trump, held at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. US President Donald Trump met Pope Francis today in the Vatican, and met the first in-person network that was keenly anticipated between two world leaders who repeatedly clashed over several issues.
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President Trump has confirmed the death of the Pope One Line Post True Social, Written: “Pope Francis rests in peace! May God bless him and all who loved him!”
Trump and Francis have clashed repeatedly in recent years.
Trump praised the Pope at the start of Francis’ Pope in 2013, a few years before Trump arrived at the White House.
“The new Pope is a humble man and looks very similar to me. Trump tweeted That December, a few months after Francis became Pope.
Sour immediately. During the 2016 election, Francis criticized Trump’s campaign proposal to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
“People who only think about building walls are not Christians wherever they are,” Francis said at the time.
Trump, who actively courted evangelical Christian leaders and voters during his campaign, quickly fought back by saying, “It’s dishonorable for religious leaders to question a person’s faith.”
“If the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, as everyone knows, the ultimate trophy of ISIS can promise that the Pope prayed in hoping that Donald Trump was president because this didn’t happen,” he added.
Trump met the Pope during his 2017 trip to the Vatican, and later told reporters: A photo of the visit smiling next to Francis, who appears to be glam, quickly became word-of-mouth.
Almost a decade later, amid the second Trump administration crackdown on immigration, the Pope once again made rare public condemnation of the president’s policies.
in Public letter In February, for Catholic bishops, Francis described the massive deportation program as a “major crisis.”
He said that while the state has the right to protect itself, “a justly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment, and cannot express disagreement with measures that implicitly or explicitly identify the illegal state of some criminal immigrants.”
“In many cases, deporting people who have left their land due to extreme poverty, anxiety, exploitation, persecution or severe deterioration of the environment undermines the dignity of many men and women, as well as all families, resulting in a certain state of vulnerability and vulnerability,” writes Francis.
The letter also appeared to respond to widely criticized comments that Catholic Vice President Vance made several weeks ago. Vance said people should take care of their families, communities and countries before caring for others. Francis disagreed.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interest that extends to some extent to other people and groups,” the Pope wrote.
