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CatholicCitizens.org: Catholic Clergy Challenge Colleagues to Reacquaint Themselves and Their People With Humanae Vitae

Catholic Citizens of Illinois has a very nice summation of the recent Convocation of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy held in Baltimore . In addition to summarizing the six unanimous resolutions posted on the Confraternity's website , the CatholicCitizens.org site adds a note of background from the meeting itself posted on the Christian Newswire. It is worth reading !

CatholicCitizens.org: A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters from EWTN

Catholic Citizens of Illinois posts a brief Catechism for voters written by Fr. Stephen F. Torraco, PhD . Fr. Torraco posts in a "question-answer" format that makes comprehension easy. Here is a brief example: 4. If I have strong feelings or opinions in favor of a particular candidate, even if he is pro-abortion, why may I not vote for him? As explained in question 1 above, neither your feelings nor your opinions are identical with your conscience. Neither your feelings nor your opinions can take the place of your conscience. Your feelings and opinions should be governed by your conscience. If the candidate about whom you have strong feelings or opinions is pro-abortion, then your feelings and opinions need to be corrected by your correctly informed conscience, which would tell you that it is wrong for you to allow your feelings and opinions to give lesser weight to the fact that the candidate supports a moral evil. This is essential moral theology and worth reading . I...