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 – and the GOP candidate fired back, calling the pope's comments “disgraceful.”
The pope, responding to a question aboard the papal plane about Trump’s promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall, 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."
But he said: "I'd just say that this man is not Christian if he said it this way."
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