Press imagines Pope Francis attacking Trump on immigration

Published September 29, 2015 4:01am ET



The appetite for all things Donald Trump led some newsrooms to claim that Pope Francis’ weekend address in Philadelphia included a rebuke of the 2016 front-runner’s immigration platform.

But the pope made no reference to Trump this weekend, either directly or indirectly, which means all the headlines stating otherwise are either misinformed or intentionally misleading “clickbait.”

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