CNN’s Liptak: Pope Clashed with Trump on Climate, Called Border Walls ‘Un-Christian’

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LIPTAK: “The White House putting out on its official social media just the simple message of 'Rest in peace,' with photos of President Trump and Vice President Vance with the Pope over the last several years. Of course, that meeting with Vance, which just took place yesterday, came as something of a surprise. It was not on Vance's official itinerary for his visit to Rome. But Vance, of course, is himself a Catholic, and he did visit the Vatican for about 20 minutes yesterday meeting in the Pope's private residence, talking very briefly. The Pope handed him a tie and some large chocolate Easter eggs for his kids before they parted ways. And Vance saying this morning that he had just learned of the passing of Pope Francis. 'My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him.' Vance says that he was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill. You know, Pope Francis is someone who did have these public clashes, both with Vance and with Trump over the course of Trump's presidencies, even before he was elected in 2016 the Pope talked about this idea of building walls to keep out migrants is something that he said was unchristian. And this sort of continued over the course of his presidencies, clashes on issues of climate change, on issues of arms sales, on this issue of migration.”