Finally! A Catholic Voter Guide I Endorse!

[leftchick]

This is wonderful! I will be passing this around at my parish in Nov.! There is a pdf at the link to view the whole pamphlet.

http://thecatholicalliance.org/new/voting-guide/guide.html



Voting for the Common Good: A Practical Guide for Conscientious Catholics is an essential tool for Catholics who wish to vote their faith this November. It calls us to look beyond divisive politics to the fullness of our Church's teaching on a range of social issues - from poverty, war and torture to health care, immigration and the environment.

By placing Catholic Social Teaching at the center of our discourse, we're expanding the debate and encouraging Catholics across the country to inform their consciences, apply prudence in their choices, and vote for the Common Good.


:applause:

[rurallib]

1. Shades of the '60s. A social conscience in the Catholic Church?

I always said they left me I didn't leave them.

[leftchick]

2. There are still a lot of us around

mostly on the internets. I do see a lovely nun at mass every morning (the church is across the street) and she has PEACE stickers ALL Over Her Car! I mean tons of them! We always wave at her and refer to her as the peace nun! :)

[Warpy]

3. At last! I can start liking Catholics again if they drop the constant

drumbeat against birth control and abortion. There is so much more to Christianity, and Christ never said a word about either birth control or abortion, though both existed in his time. The constant churchly howling about them approached apostasy.

Catholics have often been in the forefront of social and economic justice issues. I'm glad they're going back to those things, respecting Christ's teachings instead of rejecting them in favor of things men use to control women.

Catholics on the whole have always been much more progressive than their Protestant brethren. Welcome back!

[leftchick]

4. There are still a lot of us progressive Catholics out here.

you don't like me? :(

This guide handles the Abortion issue beautifully. It is well worth the read and why I am passing it out at my church.

[RB TexLa]

7. I've always said on the issue of abortion

That it is our job to do our part to create a society where unexpected/unwanted pregnancy and abortion is something that occurs less instead of trying to codify sin.

Adoption, underprivileged mothers knowing there is assistance should they choose to have a child, working toward equality in educational and economic opportunities, etc, etc in the social justice area.

The last paragraph of the prologue to the Catechism of the Catholic Church sums it up pretty well.

"Above all --- Charity
The whole concern of doctrine and it's teaching must be directed to the love that never ends. Whether something is proposed for belief, for hope or for action, the love of our Lord must always be made accessible, so that anyone can see that all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and have no other objective than to arrive at love."

[peace13]

5. One of my good friends

80 years old and very Catholic, is as progressive as any of us!! She suffered as I did when Kerry threw the towel in! She works with St.Vincent De Paul feeding and clothing the poor. Who's to judge?

[bleedingheart]

6. This is exactly what I am talking about....a voter's guide that

deals with everything!!!

[mmonk]

8. Be careful.

That might mess up someone's broad brush strokes.

[leftchick]

10. lol!

no kidding! :)

[UTUSN]

9. K&R for where is the part to vote against Tweety, O'LOOFAH, HANNITY,

Pat and Bay BUCHANAN, G.E.RUSSERT, and all the rest of the products of Catholic schools?

Gotta hand it to them nuns, they TEACH THE BASICS of elocution, rhetoric, and the plain ol' LOOSENING THE TONGUE!!!1

Yesterday, HANNITY was tag teaming with GINGRICH. The difference in the styles was like a textbook example: HANNITY would go off into a a litany, complete with REPETITION of introductory phrase, "IF YOU WANT (thus and such) you will vote (Repuke). IF YOU WANT... IF YOU WANT... IF YOU WANT... " Then there would be a pause before GINGRICH would break the pattern, speaking conversationally as opposed to classically Rhetorically.

[mmonk]

11. They should have

Kucinich, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, and other like Catholic politicos on to talk about who should people vote for.