Pope Francis after Trump’s election: ‘Knock down the walls that divide’

Published November 11, 2016 2:45pm ET



Pope Francis said that after Donald Trump’s election, “we must knock down the walls that divide,” according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica Friday.

The leader of the Catholic Church declined to say what he thought about the billionaire who surprised the world by winning Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, stating in the interview “I do not make judgments on people and political men, I only want to understand what suffering their behavior causes to the poor and the excluded.”

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