“Catholics often face difficult choices about how to vote. This is why it is so important to vote according to a well-formed conscience that perceives the proper relationship among moral goods. A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion or racism, if the voter’s intent is to support that position. In such cases a Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in grave evil. At the same time, a voter should not use a candidate’s opposition to an intrinsic evil to justify indifference or inattentiveness to other’s important moral issues involving human life and dignity.”
"That ‘if’ clause is extremely important,” Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, said in an interview last month. “Because what it says is you can vote for a candidate who is pro-choice if it is not your intent to support that position. That means you can vote for a pro-choice candidate, period.The document also states clearly, he noted, that Catholics are not “single-issue voters.” “You may want to argue that [the bishops] are not consistent in what they say, but that is also there.”
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