http://catholicphilly.com/2016/02/news/world-news/transcript-of-press-conference-with-pope-francis/
That’s the whole press thing on the plane back to Rome, not a speech. The part about Trump a reporter asked:
“Today you spoke a lot and eloquently about the problem of immigrants. On the other side of the border there is an electoral campaign that is rather hard. One of the candidates for the White House, Donald Trump, in a recent interview said that you are a political man, and indeed perhaps a pawn of the Mexican Government when it comes to the policy of immigration. He said that if he were elected president he would build a 2,500-km wall along the border. He wants to deport 11 million illegal immigrants and, in that way separating families and so on. I would therefore like to ask, first of all, what you think of those charges against you, and if an American Catholic could vote for a person like this?
Thank God he said I am a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as an ‘animal politicus’ [a political animal]. So at least I am a human person. As to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don’t know. I’ll leave that up to your judgement and that of the people. And then, 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. As far as what you said about whether I would advise to vote or not to vote, I am not going to get involved in that. I say only that this man is not Christian if he says things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.”
Freegards
Thank you. That was helpful and appreciated.
Had the news been delivered to DT yesterday in the manner you just posted here, then Trump may have responded differently, more like he is responding today.
Thank you very much for that.
I was, however, seeking the English text of his speech. to the Mexicans on the podium in Mexico at the border.
Again, thank you