A Very Misleading "Guide" for Catholic Voters...
A Clear-Cut Case of
The Blind Leading the Blind
Hugh Akins
It’s
recently been brought to my attention that a small booklet entitled
“Voter’s Guide For Serious Catholics” has been circulating among
traditional Catholics. I have been asked by a number of good people to express my views on this, and will take the opportunity to do so now.
Aside
from the point that this booklet does not contain anything explicitly
contradicting Church teaching, it is nevertheless filled to overflowing,
so to speak, with serious omissions, false claims and misleading
statements that can only 1) further confuse traditional Catholics who
are already immensely confused, not to mention deeply troubled, over
whom they should vote for in the coming elections; 2) further divide
them on so many moral issues that we all should be in full
agreement on since the Magisterium has made its position well known (as
Saint Ignatius Loyola said, on all things we should be one mind with
the Church); and 3) further distance them from Thomistic and Magisterial
teaching for good government and for selecting the most Christian
candidate available to us; or if we can’t do any better, the one who
will do the least damage to the people and nation.