Pope: “Both US candidates are against life”

(ANSA) – PAPAL PLANE, SEPTEMBER 13 – “Both are against life, both the one who throws away migrants and the one who kills children.” Pope Francis gave a very severe answer during the Singapore-Rome flight to a journalist who was accompanying him on the US presidential elections, asking him what advice he could give to a Catholic voter who has to decide between a candidate in favor of integrating pregnancy and another who would like to deport 11 million migrants. During the conversation with journalists he also spoke about China: “I would like to visit China.” And he added: “I am happy with the dialogue with China: the result is good, also for the appointment of bishops,” he observed in view of the renewal of the two-year agreement, scheduled for October. “We are working with good will. I have spoken to the Secretariat of State about how things are going, I am happy.” Francis also said that he would like to go to his country, Argentina, “but it has not yet been decided.” He denied media reports about his presence in Paris on December 8 for the reopening of Notre Dame. (ANSA).