lifenews.com
2024-09-17
Responding to a question about the upcoming U.S. elections during his flight back from his latest international trip, Pope Francis said that Catholic voters in the U.S. will "have to choose the lesser evil" between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and that the choice needs to be made according to one's own conscience.
Anna Matranga, a CBS journalist based in Italy asked Pope Francis during the press conference, "what advice can you give to a Catholic voter who has to decide between one candidate who is pro-life and another who would like to bring back 11 million migrants?"
Pope Francis started by saying that "both [candidates] are anti-life, either the one who throws out migrants or the one who kills babies. Both are against life."
"I don't want to say [who to vote for], I'm not from the United States, I'm not going to vote there." said the Pontiff. "But let me be clear, both sending migrants away and not giving migrants ability to work, not giving migrants [a] welcome [is a] sin... is serious."
"Migration," Pope Francis continued, "is a right, it is a right that is in the Scripture. It [is] in the Old Testament."
Addressing abortion, the Pope stated that "science says: at the month of conception there are all the organs of a human being. All of them! Doing [an abortion] is killing a human being. You like the word or you don't like... but it is killing."