US President Donald Trump plans epic meeting with Pope Francis despite previous clash

Donald Trump US President has a plan to meet Pope Francis despite their previous long clash in the year 2016. In a press briefing on Wednesday 19th April, Sean Spicer White House Press Secretary told reporters: ‘Obviously, we’d be honored to have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis.’

In response, Angelo Becciu the Archbishop told the Italian news agency ANSA that ‘Pope Francis is always ready to receive heads of state who request audience anytime.’

It could be recalled that their prolonged and bitter quarrel began when Pope Francis planned to make a trip to pray with migrants along the U.S. border with Mexico last year February 2016, Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump implied Mexico was using Pope Francis as a hostage against their country and said, ‘I think that the pope is a very political person,' the New York Times reports.

Some days later, His holiness Pope Francis clapped back in a response to a question about Donald Trump's plan to build a border inform of wall and deport immigrants with no documents.

‘A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,’ Francis said. On Trump's accusation about him being ‘political’ with Mexico, he said, ‘Aristotle defined human person as ‘animal politicus.’ So at least I am human person.’

And on whether American Catholics should vote for Trump, he said, ‘I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.’

Criticizing Pope’s statement, Trump said:

‘If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that Pope Francis would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened.'