Donald Trump's Trip To Pope Francis' Funeral Puts A Sharper Focus On Their Clashes Over The Years

The day before he died, in his final public address, Pope Francis expressed an Easter Sunday message of unity and an appeal for the marginalized and migrants. "All of us," he proclaimed, "are children of God!"

In a dramatically different message Sunday, President Donald Trump issued an insult-laced post wishing a happy Easter to his opponents, including "Radical Left Lunatics," "WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials," and former President Joe Biden, "our WORST and most Incompetent President."

Some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. president and the late pope - not only their divergent styles but their positions on migration, the environment and poverty - will come into sharper focus as Trump travels to Rome on Friday for Francis' funeral, to be held Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square.

David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University in New York, put it this way: "Obviously, it's been a fraught relationship."

The relationship eroded