Cardinal Muller nails it:
Cardinal Gerhard Müller is urging U.S. Catholic voters to “test the spirits to see whether they are from God” as they prepare to go to the polls on Nov. 3.
In an exclusive Sept. 22 interview with the Register, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not explicitly endorse any one candidate, but he is clear that any Catholic or religious politician who actively promotes abortion and euthanasia is “not eligible for election.”
The cardinal also discusses whether he would give Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden, who supports legalized abortion and same-sex “marriage,” and whether a Catholic can vote in good conscience for President Donald Trump. He also criticizes some in Church media who have an “ideological” prejudice against the “American religious right.”
Cardinal Müller’s comments follow an interview he gave earlier this month to Raymond Arroyo of EWTN’s The World Over in which he urged voters to “look for candidates who are in favor of life” — a principle, he said, which is a “basis” and that “you cannot say social justice is more important than life.” The cardinal also said it was “impossible” to equate support for the death penalty and the environment with support for abortion.
Speaking of the responsibility of any citizen in a pluralistic state, the German cardinal said, “I don’t support a candidate in Germany because he is Catholic, but because he has the right understanding of life and human rights. It is better to vote for a good Protestant than for a bad Catholic.”
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Put another way: Any Catholic who votes Democrat is a bad Catholic.
For years, I’ve been saying, “You won’t be going to Heaven if you vote Democrat.” True then. True now.
Depends on what the office is that the Democrat is running for.
I can think of one election where I’d vote Democrat before Republican, and my conscience wouldn’t bother me a whit.
It’s important we don’t overgeneralize. Voting Democrat is generally a bad idea –except when it isn’t.
I voted Democrat once, because I genuinely thought the person deserved the County Cletk’s office.
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I don’t recall if she did a bad job, but I will never, ever, vote for a Democrat again.
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I can’t fathom any time where a Democrat would be preferred over a Republican.
If the Republican candidate is a transgender satanist anarchist, you vote for the Democrat.
Years ago we voted Dem by mail in FL our home of record because there wasn’t a Republican running against any local candidate. We always chose the most conservative. In VA we can cross over in primaries. On occasion we’ve voted in the Dem primary not for the Sen. Warner, the evil incumbent but for the lesser evil challenger.
If the republican is a transgender satanist anarchist it’s a sign that there are no good candidates for the position and you either sit out or vote third party.
Sitting out/voting 3rd party implies you don’t care about tranny satanists in the Republican party.
If a situation is bad enough that the Republican candidate is a tranny satanist, it’s pretty unlikely that the democrat is anything more than a lesser evil. The democrat will almost certainly support baby killing, “lgbt rights”, economically suicidal environmental policies etc. I’m not voting for that.
It’s conceivable that such a fake republican might run against a democrat who was actually decent. It’s also conceivable that Santa Claus might run for office. In practice I doubt it ever happens.
Same reasoning why I voted third party in the McCain/Obama election. McCain was a traitor and a fraud, but no way in hell was I voting for Obama.
I won’t vote for a Democrat, even if I consider her (him?) a friend (of a sort).
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I’ll either write in a candidate, possibly myself, or sit out.
Never voted for a dem in my life and I am 75. I would do 3rd party