Pope questions Trump's Christian faith, GOP candidate blasts 'disgraceful' comment
- 8 years ago
Just when it seemed the 2016 presidential race could not get any stranger, it took another sharp turn on Thursday as Pope Francis questioned Donald Trump’s Christian faith during a flight home from Mexico.
The pope, responding earlier in the day to a question aboard the papal plane about Trump’s promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall, had said: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.
This is not in the Gospel."
Trump immediately responded: “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said.
Pope Francis weighed in just hours after he prayed at the Mexico-U.S. border for migrants who died trying to reach the United States.
The pope did not definitively say Trump is not a Christian.
Not having heard Trump's border plans independently, Francis said he'd "give him the benefit of the doubt."
The pope, responding earlier in the day to a question aboard the papal plane about Trump’s promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall, had said: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.
This is not in the Gospel."
Trump immediately responded: “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” he said.
Pope Francis weighed in just hours after he prayed at the Mexico-U.S. border for migrants who died trying to reach the United States.
The pope did not definitively say Trump is not a Christian.
Not having heard Trump's border plans independently, Francis said he'd "give him the benefit of the doubt."