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One of the bishops who worked on that landmark document explains why it was not rewritten<\/a><\/strong> this year:<\/p>\n

Four years after the bishops\u2019 overwhelming approval of their teaching document \u201cForming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,\u201d key leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops did not feel that they needed to reinvent the wheel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The document highlighting issues that should be considered by Catholics as they make election-year decisions \u201cwas well worked out in 2007,\u201d said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in an Oct. 13 telephone interview with Catholic News Service<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite a challenge to come to a consensus and then bring it to the whole body of bishops, which had never been done before,\u201d Bishop Blaire added. \u201cIt was hard fought and well thought out. Since it was a teaching document, we felt it was important to keep it intact.\u201d<\/p>\n

That decision was reached during \u201cseveral meetings\u201d involving nine committees \u2014 pro-life, migration, education, communications, doctrine, domestic justice, international justice and peace, cultural diversity, and laity, marriage, family life and youth, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a general consensus that to reopen it would not have been helpful,\u201d Bishop Blaire said.<\/p>\n

But the committee chairmen decided to write a new introductory note pointing out that \u201c\u2018Faithful Citizenship\u2019 reflects the teaching of the bishops and that it is still a very important statement for use in the formation of consciences,\u201d he said. \u201cThe issues contained in it were still very relevant and still quite appropriate and pertinent.\u201d<\/p>\n

At their June meeting near Seattle, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, USCCB president, asked the bishops in executive session whether they concurred in that approach and the response was positive, Bishop Blaire said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided in the note to lift up the issues that had been in our thinking and on our agenda in these last years, so we did that,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd we wanted it to be clear that this document was not a voters\u2019 guide, but a teaching document for the formation of consciences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of the bishops who worked on that landmark document explains why it was not rewritten this year: Four years after the bishops\u2019 overwhelming approval of their teaching document \u201cForming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,\u201d key leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops did not feel that they needed to reinvent the wheel. 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