Trump: Pietro Parolin and Vatican Officials

trump: The pope, by turns dour and smiling, welcomed a more effusive president to the seat of a religion that claims more than 70 million followers in the United States, according to Hamilton Spectator. The two stuck mainly to protocol, avoiding a public reprise of the barbs they aimed at each other during Trump's presidential campaign or the pope's thinly veiled critiques of Trump as a symbol of a dangerously reinvigorated nationalism. In a larger meeting with U.S. and Vatican officials, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state, urged Trump not to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. But there appeared to be a message in the gifts the pope gave to his guest. Francis also presented him with a medallion engraved with the image of an olive tree a symbol of peace, he explained. They included a copy of his influential essay on the importance of saving the environment, a rebuke to the climate change skepticism espoused by Trump. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.