It’s on:
Contrary to earlier reports, President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis when he travels to Italy next month for meetings with the G7 leaders, U.S. and Vatican officials said Wednesday.
“Obviously, we’d be honored to have an audience with His Holiness,” he said.
Go here to read the rest. Please recall how PopeWatch envisaged this meeting last year:
Francis: Welcome to the Vatican Mr. President.
Trump: Holy Father, it is with great pleasure that I… (Trump stops and crumples up paper.)
Francis: Is there something wrong Mr. Trump?
Trump: Yeah, my advisors wanted me to mouth some meaningless crap to you. Say, is there anywhere in this place where you and I could catch something to drink and maybe some pizza and sit down and talk man to man? Maybe a nun could show Melania some of your artwork. Melania is big on that type of stuff.
Francis: Perhaps we could go to my private quarters and put our feet up. My back is killing me today.
Walking off arm in arm:
Trump: Holy Father, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship!
That started my day off with a good laugh. Thank you, Mr. McClarey.
When I wasn’t hearing Mass on Sundays, I would tell my sainted Mother that I feared that the church’s chimney would fall in if I went in. The Vatican’s chimneys won’t fall in, either.
Trump: “Nice wall you have here, Holy Father.”
Pope: “You should not be so against Immigration Mr President.”
Trump: “I’m not and unlike many countries the USA is in favor of immigration. There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding.”
A contributor from TAC was dead on when he/she said; “Immagration? A wall exists in heaven. A gate. And an extremely important vetting process too. Did we forget that?”
Quoting from memory here so it isn’t exact. Question is how can you be certain that the vetting process will be fair? At the very least we will keep some dangerous elements out. If this tactic saves one life..one..It is justified.
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