Comments on Intentional Disciples: The Travails of Voting

Update: I've fleshed out my present thoughts/quest...

2008-10-22T17:22:00.000-06:00

Update: I've fleshed out my present thoughts/questions more fully over here: http://jackblogs.typepad.com/integrity/2008/10/on-building-a-catholic-political-culture.html

Tom: I hear ya! Fair point. And, as always, exp...

2008-10-21T15:22:00.000-06:00

Tom: I hear ya! Fair point. And, as always, expressed with style.

Zippy has offered up what I find to be a cogent argument for a more robust look at proportionate reasons than what is most often offered when looking at Catholic duties related to voting. I think it is worth mulling over.

http://zippycatholic.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-heck-is-proportionate-reason.html

I think there's time for a novena between election...

2008-10-21T07:13:00.000-06:00

I think there's time for a novena between election day and the first day of the fall USCCB meeting, at which they're supposed to discuss questions on voting.

Personally, I hope they can also tell us more about what we as Catholics and citizens should do during the five hundred thousand minutes a year we spend not voting.

We've been having extensive discussion of voting a...

2008-10-21T06:00:00.000-06:00

We've been having extensive discussion of voting and conscience at Mirror or Justice (http://mirrorofjustice.org). I particularly commend to your readers the comment of my friend Amy Uelmen from Fordham, which you can find here: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2008/10/conscience-and.html. She doesn't address the third party candidate question, but the post is very thoughtful on the broader question of intrinsic evil and voting.