Cardinal Peter Turkson, the
Vatican's Prefect for the Dicastery of Integral Human
Development, on Friday denied the Vatican was against US
President Donald Trump.
"Pitting the Vatican against President Trump is rather
exaggerated," Turkson told ANSA.
"The United States has a valid and democratic government that
deserves all our respect" and which is now "carrying out
election pledges".
He added, however, that "in the USA there is a system of
checks and balances, in which we trust just as much, able, to
revise some of the promises made during the campaign".
Turkson was speaking a day after saying that The Vatican is
hoping Trump will revise his policies and is "counting" on
lobbying by the Catholic Church in the USA.
Trump's decisions are "concerning", Turkson said, "but
luckily there are dissenting voices, contrary voices, in
the US, in explicit disagreement with Trump's positions: his
immigration ban was blocked by a lawyer in Hawaii."
Turkson said "that is a sign that there can be another voice
and hopefully via political means, gradually Trump himself will
start rethinking some of his decisions".
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