Vatican City, Nov 11, 2016 / 07:12 am
When asked in a new interview what he thinks of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, Pope Francis said he doesn't judge politicians, but noted that his main concern is for migrants and refugees.
"I don't make judgments on people and on political men, I only want to understand what the sufferings are that their way of proceeding causes to the poor and excluded," the Pope told Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari in an interview published Nov. 11.
Scalfari, 92 and an atheist, is the founder of Italy's leftist paper "La Repubblica," and has spoken to the Pope on several occasions, however, he doesn't record his conversations with the Pope, and the Vatican has on numerous occasions had to issue statements urging readers to be cautious of things Scalfari has written.
According to Scalfari, he met with the Pope the day before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election that climaxed with the nomination of Republican Donald Trump as the next president-elect.