Catholics can not in good conscience vote for a Pro-Choice candidate. Check out this amazing letter from Father John Corapi...
A Call for a Rosary Novena
Among the most important titles we have in the Catholic Church for theBlessed Virgin Mary are Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of the Rosary.These titles can be traced back to one of the most decisive times in thehistory of the world and Christendom. The Battle of Lepanto took placeon October 7 (date of feast of Our Lady of Rosary), 1571. This proved tobe the most crucial battle for the Christian forces against the radicalMuslim navy of Turkey. Pope Pius V led a procession around St. Peter'sSquare in Vatican City praying the Rosary. He showed true pastoralleadership in recognizing the danger posed to Christendom by the radicalMuslim forces, and in using the means necessary to defeat it. Spiritualbattles require spiritual weapons, and this more than anything was abattle that had its origins in the spiritual order-a true battle betweengood and evil.
Today we have a similar spiritual battle in progress-a battle betweenthe forces of good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies, lifeand death. If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the UnitedStates, we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actionsthat they are enemies of God-total collapse, economic, social, andnational. The moral demise of a nation results in the ultimate demise ofa nation. God is not a disinterested spectator to the affairs of man.Life begins at conception. This is an unalterable formal teaching of theCatholic Church. If you do not accept this you are a heretic in plainEnglish. A single abortion is homicide. The more than 48,000,000abortions since Roe v. Wade in the United States constitute genocide bydefinition. The group singled out for death-unwanted, unborn children.
No other issue, not all other issues taken together, can constitute aproportionate reason for voting for candidates that intend to preserveand defend this holocaust of innocent human life that is abortion.
I strongly urge every one of you to make a Novena and pray the Rosary toOur Lady of Victory between October 27th and Election Day, November 4th.Pray that God's will be done and the most innocent and utterlyvulnerable of our brothers and sisters will be protected from thisbarbaric and grossly sinful blight on society that is abortion. Nowoman, and no man, has the right to choose to murder an innocent humanbeing.May God grant us the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and counsel toform our conscience in accordance with authentic Catholic teaching, andthen vote that well-formed Catholic conscience.
God Bless You
Fr. John Corapi
2 comments:
but what are you supposed to do if both candidates are pro choice? choose the less extreme one or not vote?
The Catechism (2240) talks about our obligation to vote: "Submission to authority and co-responsibility for the common good make it morally obligatory to pay taxes, to exercise the right to vote, and to defend one's country:
Pay to all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
[Christians] reside in their own nations, but as resident aliens. They participate in all things as citizens and endure all things as foreigners. . . . They obey the established laws and their way of life surpasses the laws. . . . So noble is the position to which God has assigned them that they are not allowed to desert it."
I would say that if we were faced with 2 pro-choice candidates, we should always vote for the least extreme. Otherwise - if the extreme is voted in, it would in some way be due to us.
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