{"id":312,"date":"2024-09-14T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:05:27","slug":"pope-francis-criticizes-trump-and-harris-over-anti-life-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis criticizes Trump and Harris over &#8220;anti-life&#8221; policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3bc3908200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope francis on plane\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3bc3908200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3bc3908200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Pope francis on plane\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pope-francis-criticizes-trump-harris-over-anti-life-policies-urges-catholics-to-choose-lesser-evil\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=36728384\">\u201cBoth are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who [supports] killing babies,\u201d Francis reportedly told journalists during a press conference aboard his papal plane. \u201cBoth are against life.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He argued that Scripture says migration is a right and that anyone who doesn\u2019t welcome a stranger is committing a \u201cgrave sin.\u201d In 2016, Francis said Trump\u2019s plans to build a border wall was \u201cnot Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>********************<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Francis said Friday that to have an abortion is to \u201ckill a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou may like the word or not, but it\u2019s killing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to see this clearly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harris, if elected, hopes to sign a bill protecting abortion nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne should vote, and choose the lesser evil,\u201d Francis said when asked what American Catholics should do. \u201cWho is the lesser evil, the woman or man? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEveryone in their conscience should think and do it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. bishops conference has designated abortion as the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cpreeminent priority\u201d for American Catholic voters this cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBoth are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who [supports] killing babies,\u201d Francis reportedly told journalists during a press conference aboard his papal plane. \u201cBoth are against life.\u201d He argued that Scripture says migration is a right and that anyone who doesn\u2019t welcome a stranger is committing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}