"A person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," the Buenos Aires-born pontiff said when asked about Trump's now infamous promises to erect a wall aimed at keeping Mexicans out of the U.S.
Francis insisted he was not telling Americans whether or not they should vote for Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who recently lost his lead to rival Sen. Ted Cruz in
a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
"I am not going to get into involved in that," said the pope, who had just wrapped up a tour of Mexico.
"I would only say that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that."
Pope Francis to Trump: Building Mexico Wall 'Not Christian'
DOES this pope live in the Vatican?
This is the Vatican's walls..over 30 feet high!
Why Pope do you have walls around your Vatican?
How dare you accuse someone of not being Christian WHEN YOU LIVE BEHIND WALLS!
PHOTOS: Pope’s border wall around Vatican
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