Catholic Action Group (C.A.G) issues UK voters guide for Catholics

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FightingFat:

I think if you read through some of the post election threads you’ll find many are disallusioned with how well, GWB has lived up to his pro-life mandate. Would you not be worried that people would start using this important issue as a political football?

I think you can divvie them up based on their stand on social justice issues which have to be of primary concern to Catholic voters.

my problem with this is that in England you get a lot of groups who say they are interested in social justice. Lots of them even call themselves catholic. When you investigate further, you find that most of the time they reject the Catholic Church’s moral teaching. They reject everything that Pope Benedict has to say. They are liberals, I’m afraid: first worlders who want to carry on without God.

 

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FightingFat:

I think you can divvie them up based on their stand on social justice issues which have to be of primary concern to Catholic voters.

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my problem with this is that in England you get a lot of groups who say they are interested in social justice. Lots of them even call themselves catholic. When you investigate further, you find that most of the time they reject the Catholic Church’s moral teaching. They reject everything that Pope Benedict has to say. They are liberals, I’m afraid: first worlders who want to carry on without God.

 

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FightingFat:

I would be more concerned with his ardent pro-war, pro-violence policies.

My dad lived in a dictatorship.

How many people over here who go along on Iraqi anti-war marches and hold aloft their Marxist banners know anything about dictatorships, really? Only what they read in books. The only thing they have is what they read. My bet is that none of them have families who have been persecuted by regimes like Saddam’s. None of them want to listen to Iraqi refugees over here who tell it like it really was…they only want to listen to the biased BBC commentaries which macerate the US Govt at every chance they get.

 

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Does the guide acknowledge the opinion of our current pope that voting for a pro-abortion candidate can be licit if 1) one does so not because of but despite that candidate’s position on abortion and 2) the beneficial effects of electing that candidate outweight the harmful effects? This is what he instructed to the US bishops last summer as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is also rock solid Catholic moral theology.

If the guide fails to acknowledge this possibility then it misrepresents Catholic moral teaching. From what I’m hearing, it sounds like the guide makes this error, just as the “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics” distributed in the US did.