As the taxes come from all over the world for Pope Francis, who died at age 88 on Monday, the Pontiff is remembered for many for covering communities and challenges that the novel Catholic Church had carefully avoided before.
However, many of those problems, including wars in Gaza and Ukraine, climate change and immigration, also put Francis in a collision course with several world leaders. The Pope’s funeral is Saturday in the Plaza de San Pedro, and many world leaders, including those who closed the horns with their papacy, have said they will attend.
So, with what world leaders did not agree with the Pope and what were the problems that promoted those differences?
Donald Trump
Francis fought with the president of the United States on the issue of migration for almost a decade.
Duration his first presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump promised to build a “large and beautiful wall” along the American border with Mexico.
In February 2016, a trip to Mexico, Francis, lamented Trump’s plica: “A person who thinks that he only builds walls, are not, and not building bridges is not a Christian.”
Trump hit a statement published in his Facebook account, saying: “No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question the religion or faith of another man.
“I am proud to be a Christian and, as president, I will not allow Christianity to be constantly attacked and weakened.”
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Trump ran without success for re -election in 2020 and won in a third race in 2024 in the campaign promise to carry out “the greatest deportation in the history of the United States.”
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After the death of the pontiff, Trump published on his social platform of truth: “Rest in peace Pope Francis! God bless him and all who loved him!” Trump also said that this would be the Pope’s funeral with the first lady Melania Trump.
Mauricio Macri and Javier Milei
Francis left his hometown, the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, in 2013 after Pope was chosen. The Pontiff made more than 45 international trips lasting his papacy, but Argentina was not among the countries he visited. Before becoming the Pope, he was Archbishop and then Cardinal in Buenos Aires.
In the years that followed, he had tense relations with multiple Argentine leaders.
Mauricio Macri, who was the president of Argentina in the center of the right from 2015 to 2019, never publicly collided with the Pope, but was widely believed that Francis was a critic of Macri’s austerity programs and his impact on the poor in Argentina. When Macri visited the Pope in the Vatican in February 2016, the photos of his meeting showed an unusually severe Francis, strengthening the speculation of the differences between them. Neinder of them annulled those suggestions.
In June 2016, Macri made a donation or 16,666,000 pesos (about $ 15,200 to current exchange rates) to the Scholas Educational Foundation occurred by Francis.
However, Francis wrote to the Argentine branch of Scholas, asking him to return the donation.
If the tensions between Francis and Macri were more subtle, the current president of the extreme right, Javier Milei, has been opened in his disdain for the Pope.
While Milei was campaigning for the presidency in 2023, he described the Pope as “the representation of evil on earth.” However, Milei’s tone towards the Pontiff softened after arriving at office in December 2023. In February 2024, the two with the Vatican. Milei has said that he will attend the Pope’s funeral.
Milei wrote in X on Monday: “Despite the differences that seem minor today, having the legs capable of knowing that in their goodness and wisdom it was a real honor for me.”
Jair Bolsonaro
Duration of his papacy, Francis advocated the protection of the Amazon jungle, most of which are in Brazil.
Deforestation and forest fires have the tropical jungle in recent years, and as president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, Jair Bolsonaro implemented policies seen by critics such as exacerbating the fight to save it.
In 2019, the Pope urged Amazonian bishops to take bold measures to take care of the tropical jungle. “Ifything continues as it was, if we spend our happy days, this is how things have always done the legs’, then the gift disappears, stifled by the ashes of fear and concern to defend the status quo,” he said.
In 2020, the Pope published a text about the exploitation of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and the damage caused to the forest due to mining and deforestation.
“Pope Francis said yesterday that the Amazon is his, the world, that of all,” said Bolsonaro in response to the text.
“Well, the Pope can be Argentine, but God is Brazilian.”
The current Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Da Silva Silva said that he ordered the Pope’s funeral with the first lady Janja Lula da Silva.
“With its simplicity, its courage and empathy, Francis brought the issue of climate change to the Vatican,” Lula said after the death of the Pope.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The Pope repeatedly denounced the Israel War in Gaza, where more than 51000 Palestinians have confirmed the bone since October 7, 2023.
But his strongest criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war arrived in November when the Italian newspaper La Stampa published Experments of a new book of his.
“We must carefully investigate if this fits the technical definition [of genocide] Formulated by international jurists and organizations, “said the Pope.
The Israeli minister or the affairs of the diaspora Amichai Chikli described the Pope’s comment as a “trivialization of the term” genocide “, a trivialization that is dangerously approaching the denial of the holocaust.”
In December, the Pope also called Israel’s bombing to Gaza Cruel.
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“Enough with the double standards and the viggle of the Jewish State and its people.”
Netanyahu had received the Pope in 2014, and according to the Israeli government website, Francis, in November 2023, with representatives of Israeli captive tasks of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups to Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog offered his condolences. “I send my condolences to the Christian world and the Christian communities in Israel, the Holy Land, about the loss of its great spiritual father … Trural I hope that their prayers for peace in the Middle East responded.”
Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Francis three times with his last meeting in 2021.
In February 2022, Russia launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine. While the Pope never explicitly criticized Putin publicly, Hey spoke against the war.
In May 2022, the Pope punished Patriarch Kirill de Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, for supporting the war. “Brother, we are not state clergy. We cannot use the language of politics but that of Jesus,” said the pontiff, describing a conversation with Kirill to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The Pope said he had warned Kirill not to become “Putin Boy Boy.”
Putin expressed his “deepest condolences” about the death of the Pope in a letter to Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of the Roman Catholic Church. “Through the year of his pontificate, Hey acted the development of dialogue between the Orthodox Catholic and novel Russian Catholic churches, as well as constructive cooperation between Russia and the Holy See,” Putin wrote.
Ukraine leaders
Francis also bothered the leaders of Ukraine after a February 2024 interview said that kyiv should have “the Queen of the White Flag” to negotiate the end of the war.
“Our flag is yellow and blue. This is the flag for which we live, which and prevail. We will never raise any other flag,” wrote the then Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba in an answer in X.
In October, after meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Pope said: “I appeal to the Ukrainians not being frozen.
In a publication X on Monday, Zenskyy wrote about the Pope: “I knew how to give hope, relieve suffering through prayer and foster unity. He prayed for peace in Ukraine and by the Ukrainians. We affirm the support.”
Zenskyy said he will attend the Pope’s funeral.
Catholic church
The Pope also criticized his own institution.
In 2022, the Pope apologized for the “cultural genocide” or the indigenous population of Canada a visit to the country.
From the 19th century to the end of the 1990s, the Federal Canadian government tok at least 150,000 children belonging to the first nations, Metis and Inuit Communities to residential schools to erase their cultures and languages. Most of these schools were directed by the Catholic Church.
“I’m sorry. I apologize, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and religious communities cooperated, especially through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and assimilated by the governments of residential schools,” Francis said.
However, his refusal to call what the Church did “cultural genocide” caused criticism of some leaders of the first nations.
What were other contentious moments for the Pope?
In November 2017, the Pope visited Myanmar and did not explicitly recognize the Rohingya community, so he is a holder. A few months later, a duration of a December visit to Bangladesh, the Pope recognized the persecuted community, which says: “The presence of God today is also called Rohingya.”
In August 2017, thousands of members of the Rohingya community of Muslim majority were forced to flee from the duration of Myanmar a military repression. From 2024, almost one million Rohingya are in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations figures. Myanmar does not recognize Rohingya as an ethnic group and denies the citizenship of the group.