Trump on Catholic Church sex abuse scandal: ‘It’s so sad to watch’

From an interview with The Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump expressed sadness over the ongoing sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church and tacitly defended the Pope’s handling of the crisis, in an exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller.

“It’s so sad to watch,” Trump said when asked for his thoughts on the issue, lamenting “the numbers, the length of time, you know, going back 70 years, I think it’s having a really negative impact on the Catholic Church. … “To me it’s one of the sadder stories ’cause I respect so much the Catholic Church. And to me it’s a very sad story.”

The sexual abuse scandal arose in recent weeks after the release of a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of abuse within the state over the previous decades. The report implicated dozens of priests in sexual abuse and the highest levels of Church leadership in the U.S. in covering up these abuses.

Read the rest. The president added,  “The Pope is handling it, I guess the best anyone can handle it. How is he going to handle it?”