Francis went ahead with the border Mass, drawing almost two hundred thousand worshippers, and said nothing about Trump. On the flight home, however, he was sharply critical of the Republican candidate: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
The next day, Trump counterattacked. It was “disgraceful” for the pope to question his religious faith, said Trump, who was raised a Presbyterian. He insisted Francis did not speak for most Americans of the faith: “The Catholics love me.” Several conservative evangelical leaders who were Trump backers said it was the pope, not their candidate, who crossed a line by meddling in American politics. “Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country,” said Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, an evangelical school in Virginia.
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