Saw on Sky News that Pope Francis has urged US voters to consider the “lesser of two evils.” Namely, between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Said that he couldn’t tell Catholics how to vote but that they should look to their consciences. That’s good advice for everything. He might have stopped there. He didn’t.

He went to the issues. Not inflation. Nor the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. But to abortion and immigration. He was then able to say that both candidates were “against life.”

Now clearly one candidate wants women to have the unfettered right to kill their unborn babies, up to full term. And to leave them to die if, having been aborted, they somehow remain alive. The Pope rightly calls this “assassination.” Trump called killing babies born alive “execution.” The Pope and Trump seem to be on the same page, at least in part.

Trump has a nuanced position as do I do. But let’s be clear, unlike Harris and her ilk, we acknowledge that abortion is not about “reproductive rights,” it is about killing an unborn human being. And that must always be borne in mind when contemplating an abortion.

Why then does the Pope consider Trump to be against life? Well, apparently, not allowing millions of people to gatecrash your national borders and ruin the lives of many of your citizens is anti-life. Go figure. It is an “evil” and a “sin” to reject such “migrants,” according to the Pope.

Of course, Trump does not reject migrants at all, just illegal migrants. And, most particularly those of criminality and low character.

Imagine you lived in small-town Springfield Ohio and, in the space of a few years, 20,000 and more, the exact numbers depend on your source, Haitian “immigrants” descended on the town. Can your schools and hospital and medical centres cope? Do you feel safe sending your kids to the local store? Do you, personally, feel safe as darkness hits? Would the Pope feel safe? Maybe he should open the Vatican to 20,000 Haitians and see for himself.

It is incidental whether some Haitian ne’er-do-wells have eaten dogs, cats , geese or ducks? Trump was silly to go anywhere near that because he doesn’t have to. It distracts from the problem. And his media opponents are glad to shift the debate to fact-checking pet-eating. What a free kick for them.

Harris, with Biden, have let loose mayhem on American towns and cities. Meanwhile she is immune from ever having to live anywhere near illegal aliens. That’s the point. And I feel sure, despite Trump’s self-harming digression, that the American heartland gets it.

“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman, I don’t know?” The Pope reportedly said.

That simply shows the moral confusion which has characterised Pope Francis’s tenure. Returning uninvited interlopers back to their home countries is not remotely in the same ballpark as killing babies. Tony Abbott turned boats, carrying so-called asylum seekers, back to their port of embarkation. He didn’t kill babies. His actions were not evil. They were about safeguarding the rights of citizens to decide who can join them and share the bounty that they and their forbears have built. Giving alms to the down-and-out is one thing. It is quite another to be forced to share your home with them. Essentially, Trump will try to do what Abbott did. That is not evil Your Holiness. That is self-preservation.

Of course, the socialist Pope really favours comrade Kamala. Bringing in Trump’s immigration policy is simply a way to avoid singling out the lady’s enthusiasm for killing unborn babies. How could any Catholic worth his or her salt ever vote for that? How could any Catholic Pope be the least equivocal about that?