In February 2016, Pope Francis set off a media firestorm when he took an unprecedented shot at then presidential candidate Donald Trump. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” the Holy Father told Mexican journalists. “This is not the Gospel.”
On November 9 – the day after Trump’s election – Cardinal Raymond Burke granted an interview to the National Catholic Register, in which he responded directly to the Pope’s criticism. “I don’t think the new president will be inspired by hatred in his treatment of the issue of immigration,” he said. “Charity is always intelligent; it demands to know: exactly who are these immigrants? Are they really refugees, and what communities can sustain them?”
