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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2004-04-21

More From the Archbishop

In his second such letter in as many weeks, the Archbishop has again preached the importance of Catholics making moral choices when they go in the polling booth.

I cannot improve on his Emminence's own language, so I'll just paste some crucial grafs.

We're always obligated to follow our consciences. But, if we're serious in our Catholic faith, we also need to acknowledge that conscience does not "invent" truth. Rather, conscience must seek truth out, and conform itself to the truth once discovered — no matter how inconvenient. Conscience is never just a matter of personal opinion or private preference. It never exists in a vacuum of individual sovereignty. It is not a pious alibi for doing what we want, or what might get us elected. . . .

America's Founding Fathers did not say, and never intended, that religious faith should be excluded from civic debate. They intended one thing only: to prevent the establishment of an official state church. A purely secular interpretation of the "separation of church and state" would actually result in the "separation of state and morality." And that would be a catastrophe for real pluralism and the democratic process.

Hear, hear.
Posted by: Michael / 4/21/2004 10:41:00 PM

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