Pope Francis forcefully injected himself into the U.S. presidential campaign on Thursday, assailing Republican candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian" in a sign of growing international concern at the billionaire businessman's prospects of winning the election.
I dispute the above. Pope Francis did not forcefully inject himself into the presidential campaign. A leftist reporter said, "There is this bad man named Trump who is saying all these bad things, And Pope Francis replied, If he is saying these bad things he isn't very Christian to me."
On the plane trip home from Mexico to Rome, American journalist Phil Pullella depicted Republican candidate Donald Trump as an odious person who would heartlessly split up families and thinks only of building walls, and then asked the Pope whether American Catholics can vote for him.
The Pope responded to the Reuters reporter that anyone who thinks only of building walls and never of building bridges is no Christian, since this way of thinking is foreign to the gospel. But he also questioned the accuracy of the reporter’s depiction of Trump.
“I would only say: if he said these things, this man is no Christian,” Francis said. “But we’d have to see whether he said these things. And in this matter, I would give him the benefit of the doubt.”
http://www.fisheaters.com/forums/index.php?topic=3470629.0Pope Francis ends by saying, "I would give him the benefit of a doubt." The news media is taking what he said out of context in a major way.
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