Duterte thanks Pope Francis for visit – that he cursed in 2015

Dureza, who is in Rome for the peace talks with communist rebels, said in a Facebook post that he had with him a “personal letter” from Duterte thanking the Pope for his visit to the country.
He said he hoped to meet Pope Francis during the bacciamano, or kissing of the hand event, held on Wednesdays at the Vatican, “and possibly hand to his Holiness a personal letter of President Duterte thanking him for the Phil papal visit last year”.
Duterte, who has a penchant for using expletives, cursed Pope Francis because of the traffic congestion caused by road closures for his 2015 visit.
Meanwhile, Duterte on Wednesday taunted the country’s Catholic priests and bishops as he accused them of “hypocrisy” for criticising his deadly drug war. 
AFP reported that Duterte launched his broadside in response to the powerful Catholic Church mounting a campaign to stop the killings in his anti-drugs drive, which has claimed about 6,000 lives in seven months.
Duterte said that while parish priests around the country were well aware of the extent of the illegal drug problem, their leaders who had been railing about “extrajudicial killings” were clueless.
“The [critical] priests should take shabu to understand. I recommend one or two of the bishops take it also,” Duterte said, using the colloquial term for crystal meth, the country’s most-used illegal drug.
Duterte, who has previously boasted about keeping multiple mistresses, also sought to discredit Church leaders by accusing them of violating their own vows of celibacy.
“We’re the same, with two, three wives. Don’t get me started – all the hypocrisy,” said Duterte, 71.
Duterte also accused the country’s Church leaders of plotting to “suppress” the public exhibition of an unspecified film that he said tackled the subject of “homosexuality of priests”.
“I’m telling them, ‘Why stop it? When you expose the frailties of your faithful, you are free to shout in the pulpit’,” he said. “But you exempt yourselves. What is this?’”