How will a devout Catholic handle the job as President of the US?

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phil19034 said:
However, the best govt that can possibly exist is a devout Catholic absolute Monarch.
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I would disagree, the last Hapsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary was a devout Catholic and may be canonized as a saint.

Yet,he was a complete failure as a monarch. The realm fell apart, and before it did, millions of his subjects moved to America. Being devout doesn’t mean competency.
 
Well, he’ll steal an orangutan’s fur, put it on his head, and start acting like a kind of emperor.

Oh wait. . . Trump’s got a Protestant background.
 
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A Robert Kennedy type would be a breath of fresh air. He had 11 children when his wife was left a widow giving a sneak peak into a personal window of his Catholic life (he actually lived it) with his views on Social Justice that all men are created equal at a time when African Americans couldn’t use the same drinking fountains or toilets as whites. However I believe this would be too good for the moral majority of this nation. They preferred a Trump. Had President Obama’s tenure been riddled with sex scandals like those of Trump, the religious ‘right’ would have been stammering for his impeachment on the grounds of morals alone.
I recently heard evangelicals speaking that they didn’t vote for Trump because he was a choir boy, they voted for him for his “policies”.
That wouldn’t have included over the top tax breaks for the wealthy now would it?
 
I started to get my overly optimistic hopes up a little while ago in Canada, when Pierre Lemieux entered the race for Conservative party leader. Man, if only he could have won and then gotten elected… things would had been interesting. You never know. If could happen.
 
There are other things that reduce the number, including the easy access of Plan B and other DIY solutions.
 
Erikaspirit16 said:
The UN says 7.6 MILLION people die from malnutrition every year. You good with that? Or do you want to reduce foreign aid? Or make abortion illegal everywhere so that malnutrition numbers jumps to 15 million?
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Why do you think I’m OK with that? Are you OK with 50 million children being killed by abortion worldwide every year? That is equivalent to close to the population of England being killed in the womb every year. Is that not such a big deal?

The answer to malnutrition worldwide isn’t found by killing children in the womb.
 
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DisorientingSneeze said:
I do think they would make great efforts to protect the unborn, the poor, religious liberty, the immigrant, the prisoner. In short his/her policy would reflect the dignity of human life and God given freedoms.
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I think it depends on the “devout Catholic.” Some of the Republican Catholic politicians, like a Senator from my home state, can be sadly imbalanced in this regard - e.g. obsessing over LGBT marriage while disregarding the needs of the poor and migrants.
 
Brendan_64 said:
Are you OK with 50 million children being killed by abortion worldwide every year? That is equivalent to close to the population of England beong killed in the womb every year. Is tjat not such a big deal?

The answer to malnutrition worldwide isn’t found by killing children in the womb.
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No. It’s a problem. But to focus EXCLUSIVELY on one problem and ignore all the others is …pick an adjective: wrong, misguided, counter-productive, evil, etc.

No one said abortion solves malnutrition. Both are problems. Both should be addressed. Proportionately.

What you–and pro-lifers in general–are ignoring is that for you abortion is murder. But it’s NOT for the great majority of people in the world. Malnutrition? EVERYONE thinks that it’s wrong to allow people to die of malnutrition.
 
The White House publishes President Trump’s daily schedule.

So, in addition to those things, a devout Catholic would add daily Mass.
 
The source you cite is from 2015, 3 years ago, shortly after Trump descended the escalator to launch his candidacy and is just speculation and opinion.

The President’s actual RECORD on pro-life is actually superb- from his court appointments to addressing the March for Life
 
When we peel back the rhetoric and the binary thinking, remember, a devout Catholic would not be supported by the Democratic nor Republican party.

A devout Catholic of either party under the current platform is required to “eat a tiny bit of the pork” http://www.usccb.org/bible/2maccabees7

To stand up and say that you respect life from conception until natural death, that you can not wink at the loophole abortions, will lose your official party support.

This is the reason that we as Catholics need to begin to see outside the D/R world and support candidates, to run ourselves at local/state levels, who are unwavering in their morals.
 
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DisorientingSneeze:
I do think they would make great efforts to protect the unborn, the poor, religious liberty, the immigrant, the prisoner. In short his/her policy would reflect the dignity of human life and God given freedoms.
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I think it depends on the “devout Catholic.” Some of the Republican Catholic politicians, like a Senator from my home state, can be sadly imbalanced in this regard - e.g. obsessing over LGBT marriage while disregarding the needs of the poor and migrants.
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That’s where some of the different beliefs about the role of government would come in to play I guess, but I’m sure you are right.
 
blackforest said:
So . . . a sudden post-campaign, I’ve-see-the-light conversion after three years? I’m skeptical.
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As far as politicians are concerned, it would be nice if their policies are based on actual convictions.

But I’d rather have someone who might just be enacting Pro-Life policies because of political considerations, rather that someone who believes in pro-life policies in their heart - yet enacts pro-abort policies for political considerations.
 
I would counsel a Catholic president to make the Archbishop of the Military Services of the United States his personal adviser in matters of morality.

Concerning whether or not a devout Catholic could be elected, remember that there are other ways to get a devout Catholic President: the President could have a conversion while in office, or a devout Catholic could succeed to the office due to the death or resignation of the President.
 
The United States has always been a trailblazer. We don’t care what the rest of the world thinks.
 
We can quibble on the numbers, but that’s pretty much the reason we fought the Civil War.
 
When was the last time someone starved to death for want of food in the United States? When people starve to death in America today, it’s because of eating disorders, malicious confinement, or GI system failure, not because they can’t afford food.
 
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