In an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump said that the abuse scandal dated back 70 years, and was \u201cone of the sadder stories \u2019cause I respect so much the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Of the multiple abuse allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, Trump said: \u201cI\u2019m surprised at McCarrick, everyone knew him and so incredible to see these things.\u201d<\/p>\n *************<\/p>\n Trump refused to join the criticism of Pope Francis, saying: \u201cThe Pope is handling it, I guess, the best anyone can handle it. How is he going to handle it?\u201d<\/p>\n In 2013 Trump questioned Benedict XVI\u2019s decision to step down, tweeting<\/a>: \u201cThe Pope should not have resigned \u2013 he should have lived it out. It hurts him, it hurts the church\u2026\u201d But he soon warmed to Pope Francis, describing<\/a> him as \u201ca humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!\u201d<\/p>\n The two clashed<\/a> in 2016 after Pope Francis said<\/a> that if Trump was thinking \u201conly of building walls\u201d, then he was \u201cnot a Christian\u201d. But at a friendly Vatican audience the following year, Trump described meeting Francis as the \u201chonour of a lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Catholic Herald (UK) and sent to me by my friend Bernadette. In an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump said that the abuse scandal dated back 70 years, and was \u201cone of the sadder stories \u2019cause I respect so much the Catholic Church.\u201d Of the multiple abuse allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}