List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States
This is the list of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States. Meetings have been held at the Vatican and within the United States by six Popes and twelve Presidents since 1919.
The meetings
Other meetings
Additionally, Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) visited the United States for two weeks in October–November 1936 and met President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York on November 5, 1936.[29]
President George W. Bush attended the Funeral of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005 and briefly met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, who had led the Mass of Requiem.[30] Bush was the first incumbent U.S. president to attend a papal funeral.[31]
Former Presidents meeting the Pope
After leaving office, former Presidents Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore met separately with Pope Pius IX in Rome in 1855. Pius IX also met Franklin Pierce in November 1857. In 1878, Ulysses S. Grant met Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican.[32]
In April 1910, Theodore Roosevelt sought an audience with Pope Pius X. The Pope agreed to see him, provided Roosevelt would not call on some Methodist missionaries in Rome. Roosevelt had no intention of meeting the missionaries, but he declined to submit to Pius X's conditions and the interview did not take place. Theodore Roosevelt called the entire papal episode, "An elegant row."[33]
First Ladies meeting the Pope
There is at least one account of a sitting First Lady meeting the Pope independent of her husband. On March 11, 1962, en route to visiting India and Pakistan, Jacqueline Kennedy met with Pope John XXIII.[34]
See also
- Holy See–United States relations
- List of international trips made by the President of the United States
- List of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI outside Italy
- List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II outside Italy
- List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI
- List of pastoral visits of Pope Francis outside Italy
- Papal travel
References
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- ↑ "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Pope Paul VI - Travels". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Pope Paul VI Visit to the United Nations, 1964". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "The President's Daily Diary: October 4, 1965". Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- 1 2 "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Holy See Press Office - His Holiness Pope John Paul II Biography". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011.
- ↑ "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- 1 2 "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Pope John Paul II in Fairbanks, Alaska May 2, 1984". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011.
- 1 2 "Travels of President George H.W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Highlights of President Clinton's First Eighteen Months in the White House". WhiteHouse.gov. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ Secretary of the Senate, United States Congress. "Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients". Senate.gov. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
June 4, 2004...Pope John Paul II
- ↑ "Pope Benedict XVI - Apostolic Voyages outside Italy". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Pope Benedict XVI - Apostolic Journey to the United States of America and visit to the United Nations Organization Headquarters (April 15–21, 2008)". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ↑ "Vatican, White House: Abortion one topic of Obama-Pope chat". CNN. July 10, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ↑ "Obama holds first talks with Pope". BBC News. July 10, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ↑ Wooden, Cindy (July 10, 2009). "Presidents and popes: Obama is 12th US president to visit Vatican". Catholic News Service. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Hanna, Jason; Liptak, Kevin (January 21, 2014). "Obama to visit Pope Francis in March". CNN. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014.
- ↑ Abdullah, Halimah (March 27, 2014). "Obama, Pope Francis meet for first time". CNN. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014.
- ↑ Ohlheiser, Abby; Boorstein, Michelle (September 22, 2015). "Pope Francis has arrived in the United States. Here's what to expect.". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 22, 2015.
Waiting for Francis: President Obama, who rarely greets arriving foreign dignitaries on the runway.
- ↑ Lee, Carol E.; McCain Nelson, Colleen; Rocca, Francis X. (September 23, 2015). "Pope Francis Takes On Climate Change, Religious Freedom and Other Big Issues". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
The day began with Mr. Obama welcoming the pope at the White House.
- ↑ "Pacelli Lunches With Roosevelt", The New York Times, p. 1, November 6, 1936
- ↑ Assaf, Andrea Kirk (June 10, 2007). "Bush and Benedict: First Meeting". Inside the Vatican. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ↑ Loven, Jennifer (April 13, 2008). "A look at pope-president meetings". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ↑ DeGregorio, William A. The Complete Book of US Presidents W.W. Norton 1989 ISBN 978-1-56980-286-1
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- ↑ "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 21, 2012.