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YOUR FAITH, YOUR
CITIZENSHIP, YOUR VOTE!
According
to the United States Catholic Bishops’ comprehensive statement, Living
the Gospel of Life (1998), Catholics are “to embrace their citizenship not merely as a duty and privilege, but as an opportunity meaningfully to participate in building the culture of life. Every voice counts. Each act of responsible citizenship is an exercise of significant individual power”.
"We share in the good and evil of those we place in office. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that, although ‘sin is a personal act, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them
(Catechism of the Catholic Church #1868).’” Fr. John
Corapi, S.O.L.T., Form Your Conscience! Vote Your
Conscience.
Fr.
John Corapi Eleventh Hour Election Alert <VIDEO>

THREE
MINUTE VIDEO
"Three-minute video will help educate and
inspire Catholic voters looking for guidance this election. Help spread the word and urge Catholics and all Christians of good will to live their faith in public life with
renewed vigor." (CatholicVote.com)

En noviembre, el futuro de Estados Unidos esta en juego.
THREE
MINUTE VIDEO
"The majority of voters can be
uninformed or biased or simply wrong. Thus, to survive, American democracy
depends on people of character fighting for their beliefs in the public
square - legally, ethically, and nonviolently, but forcefully and without
apology. Anything less is a form of theft from the nation's health."
(Archbishop Charles Chaput, Render Unto Caesar, p. 147)
"The transcending issue of our day is the intentional destruction of innocent human life, as in abortion. We
wish with all our hearts that no candidate and no party were advocating this heinous act against the human person.
However, since it is a transcending issue, and even supported in its most extreme and horrific forms, we must
proclaim time and time again that no intrinsic evil can ever be supported in any way, most especially when it
concerns the gravest of all intrinsic evils: the taking of an innocent life."
(Cardinal Justin Rigali, Faithful Citizenship — Respect for Life)
Worthiness
to Receive Holy Communion
Memorandum
by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
What does "Catholics Vote Catholic" mean?
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Questions & Answers
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Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters

Q
& A by Fr. Stephen F. Torraco, PhD
Joint
Statements of Dallas/Ft. Worth Bishops

Clear
Principles on Catholic Voting
A
Pastoral Letter from Most Rev. Joseph F. Martino
Bishop
of Scranton, Pa.
A
Letter from Most Rev. Arthur Serratelli 
Bishop
of Paterson, New Jersey
Archbishop
Chaput Challenges Catholics 
A Book Review: Render Unto
Caesar
Catholics! Vote Your Conscience!
Statements By Church
Leaders
Archbishop Raymond Burke
Our Civic Responsibility
Archbishop Charles Chaput
Church and State -
What belongs to Caesar
Bishop Joseph Martino
A
Pastoral Letter - Respect Life Sunday
Archbishop John Myers
A Voters Guide
Archbishop Joseph Naumann
Catholics
Called to Bring Faith to Bear on Public Issues
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted
Catholics
in the Public Square
U. S. Bishops
“Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship”
Catholic Bishops of Kansas
Moral Principles for Catholic Voters
Vatican
Congregation for the Defense of the Faith
On Some Questions regarding the Participation of Catholics in
Political Life
Bishop John Myers
The
Obligation of Catholics and the Rights of Unborn Children
"I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is
abortion."(Mother
Teresa, Washington, D.C. 1994)
"If great things are not done by Catholics in
America, the fault lies surely with themselves - not with the
republic'... We create the future by our choices and our actions,
here and now. That includes our choices in the public
square."
(Archbishop Charles Chaput, Render Unto Caesar)
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Voter Guides (2008)
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Voter Guide
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State Congressional Offices (NM)
Voter Guide - Center
for Traditional
Family Values
Republican Party Platform
(2008)
Democratic Party Platform (2008)
A
Comparison of Democratic and Republican Party Platforms (2008)
Prayer For The
Election Of
Government Officials And For Citizens
Prayer to Blessed Mother Mary
Dedication
Elections Have
Consequences.
The Catholic Vote
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director,
Priests for Life

Terri
Schiavo's Final Hours
"The night before she died, I said to the media that her estranged husband, Michael, his
attorney, Mr. Felos, and Judge Greer were murderers. I also pointed out, that night and
the next morning, that contrary to Felos' description, Terri's death was not at all
peaceful and beautiful. It was, on the contrary, quite horrifying. In my 16 years as a
priest, I never saw anything like it before."
(Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life)
"To claim the right to
abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in
law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil
significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others.
This is the death of true freedom..." (Pope
John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae)
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"We therefore urge Catholics and all people of good will to join
us in reaffirming, cell research, that “the killing
of innocent human creatures, even if carried out to help others, constitutes an absolutely
unaccept- able act.” (Pope John Paul II, Evangelium
Vitae, no. 63).
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