‘Trump picks fight with Pope’, was one headline I read this morning. Commentators were saying it was foolhardy, or possibly brave, of the Republican frontrunner to take on Francis during a primary season in which so many Catholics will be casting their votes.
I’m not convinced. This is one fight that Trump didn’t start. Pope Francis was asked, mid-flight from Mexico, about Trump’s plan to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States. He replied that anyone who wanted to do that wasn’t a Christian. At which point Trump started fuming about how outrageous it was that his Christian faith should be called into question.
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