Ratzinger says it's OK for Catholics to vote for pro choice candidates

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Ratzinger is talking about "the dictatorship of relativism" but he said before the election that a Catholic is allowed to vote for pro choice candidates for "proportional reasons."

DUH THAT'S RELATIVISM and it's how ALL THINKING HUMAN BEINGS THINK.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3534-2004Sep7.html

Catholic Voters Given Leeway on Abortion Rights Issue

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 8, 2004; Page A06

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's arbiter of doctrinal orthodoxy, has given Roman Catholic voters leeway under certain circumstances to vote for politicians who support abortion rights, U.S. Catholic officials said yesterday.

Ratzinger's statement came at the bottom of a one-page confidential memorandum that he sent in June to Washington's Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, head of a commission of U.S. bishops on Catholics in political life. It was published in full by the Italian press this summer, and the section dealing with voting was first reported yesterday by the Detroit Free Press.

"A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia," wrote Ratzinger, who is head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department charged with ensuring fidelity to church teachings.

But Ratzinger added: "When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons."

[hopein08]

1. Seems like someone here would have...

said that is a good thing. I'm kind of surprised that no one has. I think it's a very balanced way of looking at things. Maybe Ratzinger isn't the utlra neocon some are portraying him as.

[LoZoccolo]

2. Nuance is not a prominent trait here. n/t

[Quixote1818]

3. No Kidding! Perhaps I am totaly wrong about him. nt