--- title: Donald Trump Wants to Meet the Pope During Europe Trip description: The White House has expressed hope of a meeting between Pope Francis and President Donald Trump when the latter visits Europe next month. canonical: https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/ author: Joseph Hincks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-20T09:23:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:12.346Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Wants to Meet Pope Francis During Europe Trip og:description: The prospect of Trump's papal meeting had been in doubt og:url: https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31238057e0c60b5b/6988c3b9cf40a83133c4754c/gettyimages-669055094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Pope Francis Holds The Easter Mass and Delivers His Urbi Et Orbi Blessing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Wants to Meet Pope Francis During Europe Trip twitter:description: The prospect of Trump's papal meeting had been in doubt twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31238057e0c60b5b/6988c3b9cf40a83133c4754c/gettyimages-669055094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Wants to Meet Pope Francis During His Europe Trip in May > Sponsored content. 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Franco Origlia—Getty Images by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Apr 20, 2017 9:23 AM UTC The White House has expressed hope of a meeting between Pope Francis and President Donald Trump when the latter visits Europe next month. “Obviously, we’d be honored to have an audience with His Holiness,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at Wednesday’s press briefing, the _Wall Street Journal_ [reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-seeks-to-meet-pope-francis-on-european-trip-in-may-1492634753?mod=e2fb). Trump’s European itinerary will incorporate a NATO summit in Brussels and the G-7 Summit in Sicily, according to statements issued by the White House earlier this year. However, Spicer’s remarks are the first official signal that Trump would follow in the footsteps of every U.S. President from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama in meeting the Pope at the Vatican (Woodrow Wilson was the first U.S. President to meet the Pope in 1919.) The prospect of Trump’s papal meeting had been in doubt following an [exchange of barbs](http://time.com/4229473/pope-francis-donald-trump-analysis/) between them in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. In February last year, Pope Francis said the then Republican candidate’s Mexican border wall plans made him “not a Christian.” Trump, in turn, called the Pope’s questioning of his faith “disgraceful.” Following the White House’s statement, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, whose role in the Holy See is similar to that of a vice deputy prime minster, told the Italian news agency ANSA: “Pope Francis is always ready to receive heads of state who request an audience.” \[[_WSJ_](https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-seeks-to-meet-pope-francis-on-european-trip-in-may-1492634753?mod=e2fb)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/"},"headline":"President Trump Wants to Meet Pope Francis During His Europe Trip in May","datePublished":"2017-04-20T09:23:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:12.346Z","description":"The prospect of Trump's papal meeting had been in doubt following an exchange of barbs in the run up to the 2016 presidential elections","url":"https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/","keywords":["White House","Pope Francis","Vatican","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31238057e0c60b5b/6988c3b9cf40a83133c4754c/gettyimages-669055094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31238057e0c60b5b/6988c3b9cf40a83133c4754c/gettyimages-669055094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pope Francis Holds The Easter Mass and Delivers His Urbi Et Orbi Blessing","caption":"Pope Francis Holds The Easter Mass and Delivers His Urbi Et Orbi Blessing","creditText":"Franco Origlia—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4747884/trump-pope-francis-europe-vatican/","name":"President Trump Wants to Meet Pope Francis During His Europe Trip in May"}}]}] ```