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Someone
forwarded to me your discussion of voting, and in
my opinion much of what you have written is very useful and fully in keeping
with the teaching of the Catholic Church. I would commend to you, however,
some consideration of St. Alphonsus Liguori’s distinction between formal
and material cooperation in evil. In Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul
uses this principle to explain how a Catholic legislator can in good conscience
vote for flawed legislation with the explicit intention of limiting harm.
I think this same reasoning can be applied, mutatis mutandis, to voters
choosing among imperfect candidates . . . [etc. quotations
etc.].
 s I say
elsewhere, everyone who calls himself Christian
has essentially two choices in living a Christian
lifestyle.
1. |
You can do anything it takes
to be purified in this life of anything that is not love so that you
can live according to the principles of pure, divine
love, fighting all battles
with nothing but love, regardless of what happens around you. |
2. |
Or you can attempt to squeeze
past hell along the path of least obligation,
fighting battles along the way with
agrumentativeness, intellectual
pride, and political
maneuvering, all the while in grave danger of falling into the very chasm
you hope to avoid. But, if you are so lacking in faith and trust in God that
you want to risk your salvation by taking matters
into your own hands like this, then there is no point in telling you otherwise
because you won’t listen anyway. So go ahead and
do what you want. |
Whatever your decision, the path
you choose and the price that will be exacted from you is all your own personal
responsibility.
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