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Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly update morning edition.

On this Tuesday a few days ago Pope Francis weighed in on the U presidential race saying that Catholic voters have to choose

between quote the lesser of two evils.

Now I forgive the pontiff's embrace of a cliche because he's a good man in my opinion, supremely

concerned about the poor and powerless as Jesus of Nazareth was.

According to Catholic dogma, human life is sacred and must be protected. Thus abortion is a grave sin. Vice President Harris eagerly embraces the life-ending procedure with no restrictions in her quest for political power.

I suspect the Vice President would contend that a fetus is not a human life. But how would she know that? It's an

opinion, not a fact. The absolute certainty no matter what your belief system

abortion ends a potential human life.

The other evil the Pope refers to is limitations on migration.

Apparently, Francis believes everyone should be allowed to live where they want with no restraints.

Donald Trump adamantly opposes that.

It is demonstrable that unregulated immigration leads to social disorder and many harmful unintended consequences as

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