OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN CATHOLICS ON THE EVE OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
1 OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN CATHOLICS ON THE EVE OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. […] Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, 1905 Dear Faithful American Catholics, I am addressing all of you, a few days before the Presidential Election that will call millions of American citizens to the polls. Even in conditions of relative normality, the exercise of the vote is your moral duty, through which you cooperate in the first person in choosing the person who will lead the Nation for the next four years. But in this coming electoral round – just as in 2020 and indeed much more so – you are not simply called to choose between two candidates who happen to be on different political sides but who both nevertheless have the common good at heart in compliance with the Constitution and the Law. No; in this election …More
Argue against Archbishop Vigano if you must, but for this one, who has tried to fight the good fight since the close of Vatican2, his open letter to American Catholics is enlightening and uplifting, especially in terms of his knowledgeable understanding of the American political system, its nuances, and ambiguities, the myriad of ethnicity that makes up its population, as well as the conundrums and challenges faced by Catholics. I fear, too many have rushed to a negative judgement of the Archbishops letter, believing they know better, what a 'true Catholic's' position should be when it comes to the question of voting. Permit me to put this question to the Archbishops detractor's. Should, sometime in the future, voting in America was to become compulsory, it is so in Australia and New Zealand and else where around the world, what then would be your voting position be? Bare in mind, compulsory voting carries a substantial penalty for not voting.