As Biden prepares to meet with Pope Francis a look back at the history of U.S. presidents and pontiffs

Forty years later, after the Nice Despair and one other world warfare, President Dwight D. Eisenhower paid a go to to the Vatican to satisfy with Pope John XXIII.

There was sturdy anti-Catholic sentiment in the US, however the tone between the 2 leaders was optimistic. Throughout the December 1959 assembly, they mentioned the significance of spreading peace world wide, particularly amid the creation of “large weapons of destruction which now exist.”