Pope Francis: we must ‘wait and see’ on Trump presidency

Pope Francis said he will wait to see what U.S. President Donald J. Trump does before making any judgments
Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square for a Jubilee of Mercy audience June 18, 2016. Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA.

Source: CNA.

By Hannah Brockhaus

.- In a new interview published Saturday, Pope Francis said he will wait to see what U.S. President Donald J. Trump does before making any judgments, emphasizing God’s own patience with him and his faults.

In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais Jan. 20, the same day as the U.S. presidential inauguration, Pope Francis said he doesn’t like to get ahead of himself “or judge people prematurely.”

“We will see how he acts, what he does, and then I will have an opinion. But being afraid or rejoicing beforehand because of something that might happen is, in my view, quite unwise. It would be like prophets predicting calamities or windfalls that will not be either,” he said.

“We will see. We will see what he does and will judge.” The world is so upside down, that it needs a fixed point, grounded firmly in reality: “what did you do, what did you decide, how do you move. That is what I prefer to wait and see.”

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