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Ardent_Fire
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I’m a little worried that I’ll be starting a debate here but I’m American, and I apologise if this is on the wrong forum. I don’t know where to ask.
Assuming everything with my application goes well for citizenship, I will become a UK citizen soon.
What is it like voting as a Catholic in the UK? As a Catholic, I’m faithful to the Magesterium, genuinely try to live a truly good and meaningful life, be a good wife, living example, concerned with the sanctity of life, compassionate for the poor and vulnerable in society. Liturgically I’m not “Latin Mass/Extraordinary Form only” but prefer a more traditional mass.
Most American Catholics that are like me more often than not will vote Republican or more conservative third party. Maybe sometimes for a pro-life Democrat but they are becoming rare.
What is it like for faithful British Catholics? Do they tend to vote for one party? Obviously because the country is more secular at the moment than the U.S. in some respects, I’m guessing that certain moral issues like abortion or gay marriage aren’t usually on the table in the U.K. – so is the voting trend more across the boards?
I’ve seen some faithful Catholics politicians here in the U.K. who are also in the Conservative/Tory party. But are there also Catholics involved in other parties? What are the key issues that you wrestle most with when exercising your vote?
I will say as an EU spouse and “foreigner” I’ve had a really hard time with Brexit and I often feel very angry about many aspects of it. I feel angry about the way foreigners are starting to be treated here and people’s attitudes about them. It has changed for the worse since I first came here over 10 years ago. My husband is straight up furious about it and feels Brexit will be a disaster. So I sometimes feel angry about some of the things that conservatives want, like privatised health care. As an American I’ll never be able to return to the U.S. because of the state of health care there, so I don’t understand why anyone would want to go that route.
But again, I generally only hear one side because I discuss these things with my husband. He is also Catholic but he’s European, but not English, and I sometimes give him crap about being “too liberal”
I’m the first to admit that I have a lot to learn here, it’s all still very new to me.
I guess the long and short of my question: British Catholics, what is the political life like as Catholics in the UK?
Assuming everything with my application goes well for citizenship, I will become a UK citizen soon.
What is it like voting as a Catholic in the UK? As a Catholic, I’m faithful to the Magesterium, genuinely try to live a truly good and meaningful life, be a good wife, living example, concerned with the sanctity of life, compassionate for the poor and vulnerable in society. Liturgically I’m not “Latin Mass/Extraordinary Form only” but prefer a more traditional mass.
Most American Catholics that are like me more often than not will vote Republican or more conservative third party. Maybe sometimes for a pro-life Democrat but they are becoming rare.
What is it like for faithful British Catholics? Do they tend to vote for one party? Obviously because the country is more secular at the moment than the U.S. in some respects, I’m guessing that certain moral issues like abortion or gay marriage aren’t usually on the table in the U.K. – so is the voting trend more across the boards?
I’ve seen some faithful Catholics politicians here in the U.K. who are also in the Conservative/Tory party. But are there also Catholics involved in other parties? What are the key issues that you wrestle most with when exercising your vote?
I will say as an EU spouse and “foreigner” I’ve had a really hard time with Brexit and I often feel very angry about many aspects of it. I feel angry about the way foreigners are starting to be treated here and people’s attitudes about them. It has changed for the worse since I first came here over 10 years ago. My husband is straight up furious about it and feels Brexit will be a disaster. So I sometimes feel angry about some of the things that conservatives want, like privatised health care. As an American I’ll never be able to return to the U.S. because of the state of health care there, so I don’t understand why anyone would want to go that route.
But again, I generally only hear one side because I discuss these things with my husband. He is also Catholic but he’s European, but not English, and I sometimes give him crap about being “too liberal”
I’m the first to admit that I have a lot to learn here, it’s all still very new to me.I guess the long and short of my question: British Catholics, what is the political life like as Catholics in the UK?
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