Dear Catholic Voter,
Victor R. Claveau, MJ Every Christian has the responsibility to live the Gospel message to love God and neighbor. Too often we turn a blind eye on the evils of today in the hope that these issues will not negatively and personally impact our lives. Yet, abortion, euthanasia, pornography, homosexuality, and other moral and social […]
Voting with an Informed Conscience
With the approaching general election this November, this to be an important moment to address together the responsibility of Catholics to be well informed and well-formed voters. Every Catholic should be concerned about a wide range of issues. We believe in a consistent ethic that evaluates every issue through the prism of its impact on […]
Voting — The “Right and Duty”
“Therefore, all citizens are to bear in mind that it is both their right and duty to use their free vote to promote the common good” (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, 75). “By common good is to be understood “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as […]
How to Vote Catholic
Deal Hudson Introduction Catholics make up about 30 percent of those who vote in national elections. These 30 million Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation—more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and more effective in its programs to help the poor and marginalized. Furthermore, Catholics who attend Mass regularly […]
Is it a mortal sin to vote for a pro-abortion candidate?
Except in the case in which a voter is faced with all pro-abortion candidates, * a candidate that is pro-abortion disqualifies himself from receiving a Catholic’s vote. This is because being pro-abortion cannot simply be placed alongside the candidate’s other positions on Medicare and unemployment, for example; and this is because abortion is intrinsically evil […]
Catholic Voters
According to “Catholics for a free choice” 51% of Catholics voted for Biden voted and his anti-life agenda. According to PEW Forum, Catholic registered voters are evenly split between those who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party (47%) and those who favor the GOP (46%). Our U.S. Catholic population has hovered around 22% for the […]
One Difference Between Good and Evil.
Paul Claudel, the French poet and diplomat of the last century, once described the Christian as “a man who knows what he is doing and where he is going in a world that no longer knows the difference between good and evil, yes and no. He is like a god standing out in a crowd of […]
What is Sin?
CCC §1849—Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as “an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal […]
Abortion as the Priority Moral Concern…
What the Bishops said in Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics, issued by the US Bishops in November of 1998, explains the priority attention that abortion deserves in the following words: Respect for the dignity of the human person demands a commitment to human rights across a broad spectrum: “Both as […]
A Catholic Guide to Voting
Victor R. Claveau, MJ “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” —Proverbs 31:8-9. The Antiquities of the Jews, a work compiled in Rome between the years 93 and 94 A.D. by the […]