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Election time: Readers divided over the Church’s role
The Catholic Sun’s blog has yet to become a place for discussion. But I came across this video from CatholicVote.org and I thought I’d post it here. Maybe it’s time.
We’ve had a lot of feedback — positive and negative — on the Arizona Catholic Conference “Voter’s Guide.” Just yesterday, a very reasonable woman called to express her discontent with the guide and, in protest, to cancel her subscription to The Catholic Sun. “Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?” she said. Then today, I got a call from another woman asking where she could download the guide because she’d misplaced her last issue of the paper. She said she’d really like to know where the candidates stood on abortion. The letters page this issue also has folks expressing their opinions, both for and against the ACC’s guide.
But what do you say? Has the Church overstepped her place in the public square, or does the public square very much need her guiding voice?
One Comment so far ...
I’m glad to see there is a discussion about this issue. I think the Catholic Church is way too involved in politics. There is a place to take a moral stand against societies ills, but I don’t believe my faith is determined by who I vote for. We should be active in our communities by correcting the injustices of all society and lead by example. I don’t recall Jesus asking the disciples to become involved in local government in order to make a change.
Comment on October 31, 2010 04:23 pmThe Church has every right to tell me that I am not Catholic because I have and do vote for some politicians who say that abortion should remain legal. I do feel however, that this no different than Democrats telling me that I cannot be a Democrat because I have no problem with the Supreme Court changing their decision and making abortion illegal.
Ironically enough, I would still call myself Catholic if it weren’t for the fact that the Church says I am not Catholic and should not call myself Catholic, because of who I vote for. I have been pushed out of the Church for no other reason than who I vote for. To me, that is wrong, but I accept it, and now like my political party status, I am an independent, or in this case specifically, simply a Christian.
On a side note, I find it disheartening that Catholics have become reverential to people like Glenn Beck, who are implicitly anti-Catholic, and who strongly associate themselves with people like Pastor John Hagee, who sat in the front row onstage at the recent Beck rally in Washington. Hagee, you’ll remember is someone who has referred to the Catholic Church as “The Great Whore”, the “anti-Christ” and a “false cult system”.
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