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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I as well as most of the Catholics I know find ourselves somewhat politically homeless in that both of the major parties have elements of their platforms that are not compatible with Catholic moral principles. Who we vote for in each election is a judgment call based on which issues we think are most pressing and who handles them well. For example, I don't care much if the mayor of my city is prolife because abortion isn't regulated on a city level, but I do care if the state legislators are prolife; similarly I don't care if county council is pro or anti Medicaid but I do want the president to support it. Usually for president we have a choice between a prolife guy with problematic economic views and a pro choice guy with better economic views. We are allowed to vote for either of these options depending on who we think will be better for the country overall as long as we aren't voting for them because of their problematic views. Personally, I don't think Trump is really prolife, and certainly not prolife enough to balance out all his other problematic views, so I have never voted for him.

Catholics actually don't vote as Republican as a lot of other Christian denominations. They did skew towards Trump over Harris but generally we are pretty evenly split and more of them voted for Biden than Trump in 2020. It's honestly the evangelicals who are super pro Trump and they don't care what the Pope says at all. 😂[/quote]

This seems like the dilemma of people who consider themselves more as members of the Catholic Church than citizens of the USA.[/quote]

I thought we disposed of the “Catholic=Unamerican” libel when Jack Kennedy was President. [/quote]

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