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Pope Francis
will receive US President Donald Trump at the Vatican on May 24, the Holy See
said Thursday, ahead of a G7 summit meeting in Sicily.
Trump’s
audience with Francis in the morning will be followed by meetings with his
Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for
Relations with States.
While
campaigning in February 2016 to become the Republican Party’s nominee for the
White House, Trump and the pontiff had a heated and extraordinary exchange
through the media.
“Anyone,
whoever he is, who only wants to build walls and not bridges is not a
Christian,” Pope Francis told journalists, responding to a question about the
real estate mogul’s anti-immigrant stance.
Trump
retorted: “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.”
Trump later
softened his tone, saying the pope was misinformed, unaware of the impact of
the drugs coming into the United States and a range of security issues that
made it necessary to build a wall along the southern US border.
On a visit
to Mexico in February 2016 Francis held an open-air mass on the US-Mexico
border, where he described forced migration as “a human tragedy.”
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