'Catholic Vote"

What exactly is a “Catholic Vote”? In order to be ‘Catholic’, a vote needs to be cast according to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, otherwise it’s a ‘this is what sounds good to me’ vote. To dress it up post facto, as a Catholic vote based on some nebulous feelings of affiliation, in order to appeal to other voting blocks is not honest.

 Basic beliefs of Catholicism are a matter of record and not a matter of opinion, no matter how badly certain clever politicians wish it to be so. One of the basic beliefs of Catholicism is the defense of the poor and the weak. From the beginning, the Church has been the voice of the voiceless and the disenfranchised. The Church stands for the defense of life wherever it is found, whether it is a life with ‘quality’ attached to it, or whether it is a life that some consider ‘inconvenient’ or even useless. Either way the Church stands for life. (Evangelium Vitae).

            Indeed it was the radical rejection of infanticide and abortion that distinguished the Early Church from the pagan society around it. The very clear and unequivocal understanding of Christians from the first century on is that abortion, infanticide, mercy killing and any other exploitation or violence directed at the weak and defenseless are intrinsic and objective evils.

In other words, the Church declared immoral and untenable practices that were already objectively wrong under the natural law. This is not a case of the Church ‘making’ something wrong; it is the Church recognizing a well-defined intrinsic evil regardless of ‘religion’. To state one’s membership in the Church while disavowing its basic tenets reflects practical confusion at best, moral confusion at worst.