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Voting for Abortion is a Crime Against Humanity

by | Oct 28, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Abortion is an intrinsic moral evil. It involves carrying out or arranging to carry out the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. An intrinsic evil is an action that is always gravely sinful regardless of the circumstances. There are no exceptions, no grey areas. The U.S. federal government is guilty of and complicit in […]

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Voting with a ‘well-formed conscience’

by | Oct 2, 2020 | , , , , | 0 |

It’s time to set aside the fight over which candidate has conformed to the full seamless garment of pro-life morality, because no one on the field has the right to claim that victory. We do not have a truly pro-life candidate anywhere on the ballot — nor, frankly, have I known of one on any ballot in my lifetime. That is not an excuse for Catholics to throw up our hands and abdicate the moral responsibility to vote. Instead, Catholics in every political party need to take responsibility for making their respective leadership hear our legitimate concerns.

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Seamless Garment or Political Comforter?

by | Mar 20, 2020 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

In the 1970’s, the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and his episcopal allies advanced the notion that Catholic politicians should not be judged only, or even primarily, by their position on abortion. Abortion was merely one strand in a rich and finely woven “seamless garment” of Catholic social teaching in defense of life. Numerous other issues, […]

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