New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in an interview that aired Sunday that President-elect Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.”
“I’ve had talks with him before in the past where he’s pretty blunt about, you know, he can’t say that he was raised as a, as a very zealous Christian, but he takes his Christian faith seriously,” Dolan told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Dolan said that he recently talked with Trump at the Notre Dame Cathedral, telling Trump that it was “nice to see” him “somewhere besides Fifth Avenue.”
Trump and first lady Jill Biden attended the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral earlier this month. The cathedral endured a devastating fire in the spring of 2019 that resulted in the collapse of its spire and wooden latticework of its roof.
Bartiromo also noted the recent assassination attempts against the president-elect this year in her interview with Dolan, saying the one that occurred in July in Pennsylvania “just missed him.”
“It’s hard to explain, other than it was God’s work,” Bartiromo said.
“Yeah, you know, I think of, Maria, I think of Ronald Reagan and John Paul II,” Dolan responded. “Both survived assassination attempts very close to one another, and when the two of them met for the first time, Ronald Reagan said to Pope Saint John Paul II, ‘Mother Teresa told me that she thinks the Lord spared me, because the Lord has somethin’ special in mind for me.’”
“And Pope Saint John Paul II smiled and said, ‘She told me the same thing,’” he added.
