🇻🇦 Pope Francis, returning from Asia-Pacific tour, weighs in on US election
🇻🇦 Pope Francis, returning from Asia-Pacific tour, weighs in on US election: Harris and Trump both "against life" - Harris for abortion stance, Trump for immigration policies. Urges Catholic voters to choose "lesser evil" based on conscience.
🇻🇦 Pope Francis, returning from Asia-Pacific tour, weighs in on US election: Harris and Trump both "against life" - Harris for abortion stance, Trump for immigration policies. Urges Catholic voters to choose "lesser evil" based on conscience. Calls rejection of migrants "cruelty" and abortion "murder". Expresses horror at Gaza war casualties, hopes for ceasefire. Reaffirms desire to visit China, seeing it as "promise and hope" for the Church.
Pope slams Harris and Trump as ‘against life,’ urges Catholics to vote for ‘lesser evil’
Francis has made the plight of migrants a priority of his pontificate and speaks out emphatically and frequently about it. While strongly upholding church teaching forbidding abortion, Francis has not emphasized church doctrine as much as his predecessors.
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National Catholic Reporter, AP, CNN, The NYT, The Hill, The Guardian
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looks like people are pissed at the pope for this but a lot of american catholics have heard for the past forty years that voting for a pro-choice politician is a sin, so the pope saying "hold up demonizing migrants is just as bad" is a big deal www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/w...
— dan solomon (@dansolomon.bsky.social) September 14, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman? I don’t know,” Francis said.
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) September 14, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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Cool man, but I’m a bit fuzzy on how the scale of evil works here, like are we talking more or less evil than covering up decades of institutional child sexual abuse? Just trying to get a gauge here.
— Rob Sheridan (@rob-sheridan.com) September 14, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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