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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pope Francis calls choice between Trump and Harris a choice between 'lesser evils' [View all]
Source: CNBC
Pope Francis tells US Catholics their choice is between whichever they think is the 'lesser evil'.
Asked about the U.S. presidential election on his flight back to Rome from Singapore, the pope said not welcoming migrants is a "grave" sin, and likened having an abortion to an "assassination".
On Friday, Francis said both candidates' policies are "against life. "Whether it is the one who is chasing away migrants, or the one who that kills children," said the pope. "Both are against life."
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/14/pope-criticizes-harris-and-trump-tells-us-catholics-to-choose-lesser-evil.html
IMO this is rich coming from the church that sheltered pedos and made all Nice-Nice with Hitler while he put priests in concentration camps.
What a shame, that even a Pope hailed as being progressive will not stand against evil. BTW, God condones abortion as a test of infidelity in Numbers 5:11-31. Tells you how to administer it and everything.
(Edit) I also find it disappointing that a Jesuit would chose to equivocate in this way instead of speaking against fascism.
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Pope Francis calls choice between Trump and Harris a choice between 'lesser evils' [View all]
ArkansasDemocrat1
Saturday
OP
As if being forced to carry and raise an unwanted child is somehow virtuous,
Clouds Passing
Saturday
#1
ArkansasDem, I am so sorry this happened to you! Have you ever seen the TV show "Long Lost Family"? It's on TLC
LaMouffette
Monday
#154
So vote for Harris. If you are female and don't want an abortion, don't get one.
Freethinker65
Saturday
#10
Is that kinda like a priest that sexually abuses alter boys vs one that doesn't?
PortTack
Saturday
#24
I missed watching Dr Who which was only broadcast by PBS on Sunday morning
ArkansasDemocrat1
Sunday
#60
Pretend God's pretend leader of a pretend religion pretends that his opinion is helpful in some pretentious way.
Demnation
Sunday
#66
I call the choice between Catholism and any other belief system...
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Sunday
#75
This is disappointing, coming from a pope who I have admired through the years.
NH Ethylene
Sunday
#83
Francis gets more credit than he deserves ... from climate change to this issue
krkaufman
Sunday
#108
In my small Texas town there is a thriving Catholic church. The priest there says "from the pulpit"
efhmc
Sunday
#119
Atheist or Catholic. Which is the lesser of two evils and it isn't Catholic?
twodogsbarking
Sunday
#130
Fuck Francis if he cares more about the possibility of a fetus being delivered than the mother surviving the birth.
Martin68
Sunday
#136
It isn't a straight choice between two things. What about dictatorship vs freedom? Left to die vs healthcare?
Doodley
Monday
#152
Does it not occur to Mr. Pope that there would be fewer unplanned pregnancies if
Kashkakat v.2.0
Monday
#157