Pope slams Harris and Trump, tells U.S. Catholics to vote for ‘lesser evil’ – National

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Pope slams Harris and Trump, tells U.S. ********** to vote for ‘lesser evil’ – National

Pope Francis said that ********* voters face the choice between “the lesser evil” in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, taking aim at both Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and *********** nominee Donald Trump, and emphasizing that he believes both are running for president on anti-life policies.

“Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) ******** *******,” Francis said, speaking to journalists aboard the papal plane Friday, as reported by The Associated Press. “Both are against life.”

The in-flight press conference, which took place on a chartered flight from Singapore to Jakarta as part of a 12-day tour, saw the Pope urge ********** to vote with their conscience.

“In political morality, in general they say that if you don’t vote, it’s not good, it’s bad. You have to vote, and you have to choose the lesser evil,” he said.

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“Who is the lesser evil, the woman or man? I don’t know.”

Although he did not mention either candidate by name, he alluded to both of their platforms as being against the teachings of the ********* *******.

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Francis has made the plight of migrants a priority of his pontificate and speaks out emphatically and frequently about it. While strongly upholding ******* teaching forbidding *********, Francis has not emphasized ******* doctrine as much as his predecessors.

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“To have an ********* is to ***** a human being. You may like the word or not, but it’s ********,” he said Friday. “We have to see this clearly.”

Francis said migration is a right described in scripture and that anyone who does not follow the Biblical call to welcome the stranger is committing a “grave sin.”

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While popes generally don’t wade into politics, it’s not the first time Francis has shared his thoughts on a U.S. election. In 2016, during the run-up to the presidential election, he said that Trump’s plan to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out migrants “is not **********.”

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The U.S. bishops conference, for its part, has called ********* the

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in its published voter advice. Harris has strongly defended ********* rights and has emphasized support for reinstating a federal right to *********.

In his comments, the Pope added: “On *********, science says that a month from conception, all the organs of a human being are already there, all of them. Performing an ********* is ******** a human being. Whether you like the word or not, this is ********. You can’t say the ******* is closed because it does not allow *********. The ******* does not allow ********* because it’s ********. It is *******.”

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According to the ********* News Agency, Francis’ remarks about voting for “the lesser evil” refers to the *********’s longstanding teaching “that when faced with a choice between candidates who aren’t wholly aligned with the *******’s position on

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— such as the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom — it is permissible to cast a vote against the candidate who would do the most harm.”

The Pope’s comments come just days after the first presidential debate, in which ********* and migration were significant topics.

— with files from The Associated Press

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