Pope Francis has criticised Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for some of their policy ideas.
Speaking to reporters on a flight to Rome from Singapore, he spoke about the former president’s plan to deport millions of immigrants.
He said migration was a right described in Scripture, and that anyone who does not follow the Biblical call to welcome the stranger is committing a “grave sin”.
He took aim at Ms Harris’s reproductive rights policies, likening having an abortion to an “assassination”.
“To have an abortion is to kill a human being. You may like the word or not, but it’s killing,” he said. “We have to see this clearly.”
He said Catholics would have to “choose the lesser evil” when they vote in November.
“One should vote, and choose the lesser evil,” he said. “Who is the lesser evil, the woman or man? I don’t know.
“Everyone in their conscience should think and do it.
“Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) killing babies,” he added. “Both are against life.”
He also stressed that he is not an American and would not be voting.
The Pope 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, he hasn’t emphasised church doctrine as much as his predecessors.
It is not the first time Francis has weighed in on a US election. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Francis was asked about Mr Trump’s plan to build a wall at the US-Mexican border.
He declared then that anyone who builds a wall to keep out migrants “is not Christian”.
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