voting post<\/a> from a couple days ago.\u00a0 Again, the Bishops make it clear: You\u00a0must allow your conscience and your voting to be informed by Catholic teaching.\u00a0 You cannot vote for a candidate in order to advance an intrinsic evil (duh).\u00a0 You cannot support a candidate who is about advancing intrinsic evils simply because you don\u2019t like the other guy, or you only support women, or you\u2019re\u00a0a party faithful, or whatever.\u00a0 If you are faced with two options, both of which advocate for evils, you can make the extraordinary choice of not voting, or you can choose the one who will do the greater good, or the less evil.\u00a0 That\u2019s it. <\/p>\nDespite the clarity of this, Catholics on the Internet have struggled for years to suggest that what the Bishops really intended to mean was that the way I vote or don\u2019t vote is exactly the way Jesus would do it, and otherwise you don\u2019t like God.\u00a0\u00a0The fact is, the Bishops appear to assume good will in their teachings. Those who wish to\u00a0twist\u00a0them and turn them so that their preferred way is the only way, can end up doing damage to the teaching, as well as to the soul. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The American Catholic has a poignant piece about the whole voting post from a couple days ago.\u00a0 Again, the Bishops make it clear: You\u00a0must allow your conscience and your voting to be informed by Catholic teaching.\u00a0 You cannot vote for a candidate in order to advance an intrinsic evil (duh).\u00a0 You cannot support a candidate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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