Pope: Donald Trump 'Is Not Christian'
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Pope Francis isn't telling Americans who they should vote for in the race for President, but he suggested Donald Trump "is not Christian," if some of the Republican presidential frontrunner's reported comments on immigration are true.
Trump repeatedly has said he would build a massive impenetrable wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out undocumented immigrants, and would even get Mexico to pay for it.
Pope Francis was asked whether American Catholics should vote for someone like Trump.
"I am not going to get involved in that," he said. "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 I will give him the benefit of the doubt."
Trump and Pope Francis have criticized each other before. The pope's most recent comments came in response to a question about Trump's recent criticism that Francis is "very political," and Mexico is trying to use him to convince the U.S. to leave the border unsecured.
"Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person," Francis said. "As to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people."
