President Trump holds ‘fantastic meeting’ with Pope Francis at the Vatican

The Catholic leader and the President held a cordial, if subdued meeting at the Vatican on Thursday morning (AEST), with no reprise of the criticism they aimed at each other during the U.S. presidential election. In the past year, the two men have swapped jibes and debated on subjects ranging from migration to unbridled capitalism, as well as the environment.

The Pope may have gotten through to President Trump.

The President is expected to attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting and a G7 summit at the conclusion of his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

Trump told the pope that he “won’t forget what you said” following the meeting.

Francis smiled faintly as he greeted Trump outside the study and was not as outgoing as he sometimes is with visiting heads of state.

Since his November election, Trump has pleased the Catholic hierarchy by axing rules protecting tax-funded financing of family planning clinics that offer abortions.

Francis had criticized then-candidate Trump in February 2016, after Trump unveiled a key goal of his presidential campaign: walling off the US border with Mexico. In February 2016, the pontiff remarked on then-candidate Trump’s key proposal to build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border, saying it was un-Christian.

It seems needlessly mean, however, to deny Spicer what could be his single chance to meet a sitting Pope.

The Vatican highlighted in its statement that it hopes to continue providing “assistance to immigrants” as well as health care and education services in the US. I was raised “church multiple times a week or you’re going to hell, if you ever masturbate you’re going to hell, if you even think something less than good, you might as well have done it. and also you’re going to hell” Catholic. “And that’s a hard balancing act”.

Melania Trump accompanied the president to the Vatican on Wednesday, wearing a black veil and a long-sleeved black Dolce & Gabbana dress. At one point, Francis kidded with the first couple. They shook hands and the pontiff asked her what she feeds the president.

“Potizza”, she said, referring to a Slovenian treat. It is a topic that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Mr. Trump also discussed with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, during their visit to the Holy See.

The pope handed out tokens, in white boxes, to each member of the delegation.

The two have fundamentally different views about how to restore balance to a global economic system they consider broken, with Trump focusing on the engines of capitalism and Francis fighting to protect the disadvantaged from the dehumanizing forces of the modern world.

“We can use peace”, Trump replied.

After his visit to Israel, Trump thanked his hosts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.

The big blue box in the front contains the Martin Luther King Jr. books. “I think you will enjoy them”.

“Would expect a man of God to be honest so he’s spot on.Trump is fat”, said one Daily Mail reader.

“Peace is possible if we put aside the pain and disagreements of the past and commit together to finally resolving this crisis, which has dragged on for almost half a century or more”, Trump said during a speech at the Israel Museum on Tuesday.

“We always saw press conferences as part of our objective: to send the message in countries without a free press, or with limitations on freedom of speech that the United States valued these sometimes-unpredictable interactions as a part of democracy”, Psaki said.