Catholic voters’ impossible choice – By Matthew Walther (The Week) / Aug 16 2020
Of all the lunatic political ideas I have ever seen foisted upon the Catholic laity, perhaps the most self-evidently absurd is the idea that we are somehow obligated to take part in what some people still quaintly refer to as “the democratic process.” So far from being an absolute moral imperative, voting was proscribed in Italy under pain of mortal sin as recently as a century ago. If a more recent discipline has enjoined the reverse upon the faithful it is unknown to me and to the code of canon law.
A better case could be made that Catholics, not only in this country but in the vast majority of the world’s so-called “developed” nations, should refrain from voting entirely save perhaps for local candidates or direct ballot initiatives.
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