Catholic Pro-Life Groups Condemn Phony Voter Guide From Abortion Activist

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**Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – **Catholic pro-life groups are condemning what they call a phony voter guide put out by a Catholic organization with ties to abortion advocates. They say the guide from Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) incorrectly suggests that support for pro-abortion politicians can be justified. Joseph Cella, the president of Fidelis, a national Catholic-based advocacy group, told LifeNews.com that CACG is headed by Alexia Kelley, a former advisor to the John Kerry presidential campaign. Kerry, a pro-abortion Massachusetts senator, lost to pro-life President George W. Bush in the 2004 elections. “Following the 2004 elections, pro-abortion politicians recognized their vulnerability with Catholic voters and have been searching for ways to shrewdly package a convincing arguments that would appeal to morally conscious voters,” Cella says about the mindset behind the voter’s guide. The CACG booklet argues “we often must vote for candidates who hold the ‘wrong’ Catholic positions on some issues in order to maximize the good our vote achieves in other areas.” But the nation’s Catholic bishops disagree, Cella explains, saying they made it clear that candidates who are wrong on abortion but hold Catholic views on other political issues don’t deserve the votes of faithful Catholics. In their 1998 document entitled Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics, the United States Catholic Bishops said, “Being ‘right’ in such matters can never excuse a wrong choice regarding direct attacks on innocent human life." “Indeed, the failure to protect and defend life in its most vulnerable stages renders suspect any claims to the ‘rightness’ of positions in other matters affecting the poorest and least powerful of the human community,” the Catholic leaders wrote.
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I totally agree that anyone who is pro-abortion is not Catholic. Although we must understand that not much in the modernistic world in which we live in is black and white in clarity. Sometimes liberals seem to be anti-war, which is a lack of respect for human life as well as abortion. The problem is how can good political ideas and morality for modern day America be carried out by people who have some say in government i.e. not a politician, but concerned voters, citizens, and career people who want Catholic ideals to be accepted in an increasingly secular world.👍
 
You will know them by their fruits. Seems pretty black and white to me.
 
Theres an instance of a mob. I remember it says something about convincing someone of something but nothing about Christ and coercion. Its hard to derive the relationship between Catholism and freedom from this. Shrewd is the word I would use to describe voting for a (ex)Catholic who’s job is to govern in a totally partisan manor. Stuburn is the donkey and that’s how I would describe someone who votes on an impossible issue. When do you stop voting for the republicans? What is the breaking point?
 
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