Report: Catholic Democrats ‘See No Problem’ with Pro-Choice PlatformThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 Aug 202419
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ROME — A new report suggests that Catholic Democrats at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) “see no problem” with their party’s pro-choice platform, despite Church teaching that abortion is murder.
In her August 22 article, “Catholics at the DNC: You won’t go to hell for voting Democratic,” Heidi Schlumpf of the progressive National Catholic Reporter offered a survey of opinions from Catholics present at the DNC.
After speaking with a number of Catholics in attendance, Schlumpf found that “most Catholic Democrats at the convention say they enthusiastically support the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket and see no problem with their party’s pro-choice platform.”
They said, rather, that “their faith informs their political views and is the foundation of the values that prompt them to vote Democratic.”
An August 21 panel of Catholics at the Democratic National Convention titled “The Importance of Catholic Voters” was sponsored by Catholics Vote Common Good, a left-wing nonprofit seeking to “engage Catholic voters who are concerned about issues of social justice, immigration, climate change, and the scourge of White Christian Nationalism.”
The national co-chair of Catholics Vote Common Good, Patrick Carolan, who is also co-founder of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, said that those on the left need to offer their own version of what it means to be Catholic and Christian.
“We’ve allowed the other side to co-opt the term ‘pro-life.’ Pro-life doesn’t start and end with abortion,” he said. “We have to talk about pro-life being everything.”
“You’re not going to go to hell for voting for a Democrat,” Carolan stated as a message to Catholic voters.
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