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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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'Telling people how to vote'
Cardinal McCarrick went out of his way in a recent interview to deny that Church leaders were "telling people how to vote."
The Holy Father, however, doesn't seem to mind doing exactly this: "In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to 'take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it'" (Evangelium Vitae 73).
Granted, EV is speaking specifically of voting for legislation, not voting for legislators (while McCarrick, it might be implied, it speaking of the latter), but certainly the two are not unrelated, especially if a legislator has promised to vote for certain legislation.
# posted by Jamie : 12:11 PM
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