The president of the US, Donald Trump, transmitted his condolences on Monday for the death of Pope Francis on his social network Truth Social, in a brief message in which he asked God to bless the late Pontiff.
“Rest in peace, Pope Francis! God bless him and all who loved him!” Says the writing.
Trump and Jorge Bergoglio maintained some dialectical disagreements from the first presidency of the New York (2017-2021), mainly on account of the issue of immigration, with the Pope criticizing the plans of the US president to build a wall on the border with Mexico or on his mass deportation project implemented in his second term, which started in January.
In any case, during a visit that Trump made to the Vatican in May 2017, the US president described as a fantastic the encounter with the Pope, of which he said he is “a great person.”
Shortly before the Republican message, the White House also shared on the social network X two photographs of the US president, Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania, with the Pontiff.
The former presidents of the US, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, also transmitted their condolences in X.
“It did not look like any of those who preceded it. Pope Francis will be remembered as one of the most important leaders of our time, and I feel that I am better (person) for having known it,” Biden wrote in a message in which the work of the Pontiff in service to the poor, their fight against the climatic crisis or in pursuit of inclusiveness.
For his part, Obama said in his text that Francisco “took us out of our complacency and reminded us that we are all subject to moral obligations towards God and others” and said of him that he was one of those “few leaders who made us want to be better people.”
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The first of the members of the current US government to react publicly was Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting India and who was also one of the last people to meet with the Pope.
“I was glad to see him yesterday, although he was obviously very sick. But I will always remember him for the homily he gave in the first days of Covid-19. It was really beautiful. God gives him rest,” Vance wrote in X.
“We join in prayer with Catholics around the world for the eternal rest of the Pontiff’s soul and for this transition period for the Catholic Church. That rest in peace,” says the text in X of the Secretary of State Frame and the Church ”.
Pope Francis died on Monday at 7:35 am (5:35 GMT) at his residence in the Santa Marta house, the Camarlengo, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrel announced in a video message.
Francisco, who had been absent in all the rites of Holy Week by continuing convalescent after hospitalization, appeared this Sunday on the balcony of the central lodge of the facade of the Basilica of San Pedro for the Urbi et Orbi blessing.
Then he toured the Plaza in Papamóvil despite his health conditions in what can now be considered his last goodbye to the faithful.
The Roman Pontiff had not participated in any of the rites of Holy Week because he was still recovering after having spent 38 days in the hospital through bilateral pneumonia and having been discharged on March 23.
With EFE information
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