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    Pope Francis says Donald Trump ‘not Christian’

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    Post by Rocky Fri 19 Feb 2016, 9:32 am

    Pope Francis says Donald Trump ‘not Christian’
    Posted on February 19, 2016 by Editorial Staff in US
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    Pope Francis, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican. Photo: Reuters
    NEWBERRY, S.C.,— 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 election prospects.
    Trump struck back. No stranger to controversy, the longtime party front-runner in national opinion polls dismissed the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics as “disgraceful” for questioning his faith. He said he was a proud Christian.
    Francis told reporters during a free-wheeling conversation on his flight home from a visit to Mexico, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”

    Trump has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners across the United States’ southern border and has vowed if elected president to build a wall to keep out immigrants who enter illegally.
    It was not the first time U.S. allies have voiced concern over comments by Trump.
    More than half a million Britons signed a petition to bar him from entering Britain, where he has business interests, in response to his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. British lawmakers decided against a ban as a violation of free speech.
    Asked if American Catholics should vote for someone with Trump’s views, Francis said, “I am not going to get involved in that. I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.”
    It remained to be seen if the pope’s comments would strengthen Trump in the run-up to the Nov. 8 election. Trump’s swipes at rival candidates and heated exchanges with others have bolstered his standing in nominating contests and opinion polls.
    One of Trump’s rivals, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, said he would not question anyone’s relationship with God. But Bush, a Catholic, said, “It only enables bad behavior when someone from outside our country talks about Donald Trump.”
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    Trump, a real estate developer and former reality TV show host, said, “If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.”
    Trump was in South Carolina, which on Saturday will hold a Republican nominating contest.
    He said that in Mexico the pope heard one side of the story and did not see what Trump called the crime, drug trafficking and negative economic impact Mexico’s policies had on the United States.
    Thomas Groome, director of the Boston College Center on the Church in the 21st Century, said Francis’ comments were entirely in keeping with his focus on mercy.
    “The pope is commissioned to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s his job,” Groome said. “So when he was asked a direct question, he gave Trump the benefit of the doubt, he said we have to be sure he said this, but if he said this, it is not Christian.”
    “People often think, ‘You can’t question my faith,’ but of course we can …,” Groome said. “There are rules … we call them commandments and if you deny them or ignore them you can’t just say, ‘I’m a good Christian.’”
    Groome called Trump’s suggestion that Islamic State militants would target the Vatican egregious. “Now it becomes a challenge to ISIS,” he said.
    Patrick Hornbeck, chairman of the department of theology at Fordham University in New York, said Francis’ words were not surprising given the poverty he had just seen in Mexico.
    “There is very little common ground between Pope Francis and Donald Trump,” Hornbeck said. He predicted the pope’s words on electoral politics would have little effect on any U.S. Catholics who liked Trump as a candidate.
    “Those who are in favor of Trump already will see this as confirmation of why they favor him and those who oppose him are going to see this as a confirmation of why they oppose him.”
     

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    Post by CITEX Fri 19 Feb 2016, 9:48 am

    I don't understand why anyone else outside of America should ever get any coverage on their views of our political candidates. Whether I agree with Trump or not, I will almost 100% guarantee that he is more for America than any foreign leader ever could be. Trumps comments about keeping out the illegal's is fine as far as I am concerned, he didn't say stop immigration, he was implying its out of control and puts us all at a higher risk. The Vatican is its own country... are they accepting Muslim immigrants from Syria... they are located in Europe after all.
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