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(NewsNation) — Former Fox News big Bill O'Reilly questioned Pope Francis' stance connected immigration, saying helium would person asked the pontiff if helium understood that "if you don't person a wall, you don't person a law, that the state volition beryllium overrun and galore much radical volition get wounded nether the banner of being benignant and good."
During a Monday interrogation connected NewsNation's "On Balance," O'Reilly criticized the pope's attack to U.S. borderline security, referring to erstwhile Francis told the Trump administration, "don't physique walls, physique acceptance."
"There's wherever Pope Francis went wrong. It's not the capitalistic strategy that oppresses the poor, it's the oligarchs and the corrupt people," O'Reilly said.
O'Reilly said, "I ne'er got a accidental to interrogation the Pope, but my archetypal question would person been, 'Your Holiness, I recognize arsenic a Catholic the theology of helping the marginalized... But bash you not recognize that if you don't person a wall, you don't person a law?'"
Despite his disapproval of the pope's migration stance, O'Reilly praised Francis personally, calling him "an bonzer quality being" and saying that "if each quality being connected Earth were similar Pope Francis, determination would beryllium bid connected earth."
O'Reilly reflected connected gathering the pontiff 8 years ago: "I was successful his beingness for astir 2 hours ... It was precise instructive for maine arsenic a writer to ticker however diligent and benignant the antheral was."
Despite disagreeing with immoderate of Francis' governmental stances, peculiarly connected migration policy, O'Reilly emphasized the Pope's theological consistency: "On theological dogmatic questions similar abortion, helium was rather clear. He wasn't backing distant oregon trying to curry favour with the left."
O'Reilly drew distinctions betwixt Francis and Jesus, describing Christ arsenic "much much pragmatic" successful dealing with governmental authorities of his time.
The writer of "Killing Jesus" said that the pope's motivation illustration transcends spiritual affiliation.
"The Catholic religion, if you recognize what Jesus enactment retired there, is flawless successful its dogma, successful its theology," O'Reilly said.
"Those who don't prosecute successful spirituality, successful close and wrong, are abdicating their humanness."
