PA an anomaly re: Catholic vote…
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I think there’s another story of the “Catholic vote” as well. That being that some of the vote stayed home or didn’t vote for president because they couldn’t vote for either candidate.
An interesting study found that in a diocese blessed with a bishop who strongly held the pro-life line, the number of Catholics who voted pro-life increased dramatically.
Last week’s reading, interestingly, featured the passage about separating sheep from goats (the saved from damned) that appears in Matthew 25;33.
It is theologically difficult, if not impossible, to see how a pro-abortion voter could not be participating in forthcoming abortions, and would, therefore, be automatically excommunicated (numbered among the goats forever).
Stronger bishops would have swung the election. When Dante described his journey through the circles of Hades, he saw a remarkable number of souls that had been weak, corrupt bishops.
I don’t believe the “Catholic vote” exists. Practicing Catholics are no different than evangelical protestants who cling to the Bible and vote accordingly.
On the other side of things, liberals are liberals first, regardless of any other labels that they may wish to affix to themselves. They call themselves Catholic or Christian, yet they dump those values at the polls in order to seize power and money from one group to direct it to themselves and/or another group.
I dunno. I’m beginnging to think that for all of the bluster about Catholic voters being concerned about moral issues, they may just be a bunch of hypocrite hacks for liberalism.
Catholics who vote for pro-abortion politicians are really CINOs – Catholics in Name Only. My hope is that they take one of two actions: become better educated in church teachings and more loyal, OR have the intellectual honesty to leave and embrace secular humanism as their faith.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Democrats put their political affiliation before their religion. Donkey and state before God.
They soothe their consciences by professing to be for the downtrodden. The problem with this is that they are too stupid to realize that they are manipulated by those in power into believing that the Democrat philosophy is beneficial to the downtrodden.
Show me numbers that things have gotten better under cities ruled by Democrats.
I have noticed throughout the years that a large majority of Catholics are Democrat, hence the comments…
Haha I enjoyed that reading at my parish this weekend too.
The bishops stance actually strengthened my views on abortion. While I was sort of ambivalent on the government’s role in ending the practice, after some studying after the comments it strengthened my view that government has a role in ending the sanctioning of the practice.