Homily #080609 ( 13min) Play – Fr. Ignatius outlines in detail, citing authoritative Church documents, how it is a sin to vote for a pro-abortion politician. He delves into the issue of proportionate evils, what they are and whether there can ever be an evil proportionate to abortion. He quotes Cardinal Ratzinger, Archbishop Meyers, and Bl. Mother Theresa
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Bishop Raymond Burke focuses attention on US Bishop’s document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” and the Catholic News Service (CNS) for causing voter confusion and soft-pedaling the new president’s radical pro-abort stance and so leading many Catholics to support him.

By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent

ROME, January 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document of the US Catholic Bishops is partly to blame for the abandonment of pro-life teachings by voting Catholics and the election of the “most pro-abortion president” in US history, one of the Vatican’s highest officials said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com.

Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, named a document on the election produced by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that he said “led to confusion” among the faithful and led ultimately to massive support among Catholics for Barack Obama. More at LifeSiteNews.com

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O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord, not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.  We thank you for the privilege of being able to organize ourselves politically and of knowing that political loyalty does not have to mean disloyalty to you.

We thank you for your law, which our Founding Fathers acknowledged and recognized as higher than any human law.  We thank you for the opportunity that this election year puts before us, to exercise our solemn duty not only to vote, but to influence countless others to vote, and to vote correctly.

Lord, we pray that your people may be awakened. let them realize that while politics is not their salvation, their response to you requires that they be politically active.  Awaken your people to know that they are not called to be a sect fleeing the world but rather a community of faith renewing the world.

Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to you in prayer are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth; that the same eyes that read your Word are the eyes that read the names on the ballot, and that they do not cease to be Christians when they enter the voting booth.

Awaken your people to a commitment to justice to the sanctity of marriage and the family, to the dignity of each individual human life, and to the truth that human rights begin when human lives begin, and not one moment later.

Lord, we rejoice today that we are citizens of your kingdom.  May that make us all the more committed to being faithful citizens on earth. te ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

(Priests for Life)

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Homily #121106b ( 15min) Play – Fr. Elias on the need to vote according to a well formed conscience, he compares this to the Maccabees that had to do the same thing with the sword and did it well. Today we have the ability to vote instead of using sword so we need to vote just as well. He also advocates putting forward better solutions and candidates so that voting does not become a mere choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Mass: Tuesday in the 31st Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: phi 2:5-11
Resp: psa 22:26-27, 28-30, 31-32
Gsp: luk 14:15-24

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Mary Now #22 ( 06min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle on how Catholics have a responsibility to vote … responsibly, and gives some pointers on how to do so.

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In the homily for Election Day (Nov 06, Tuesday in the 31st Week in Ordinary Time), Fr. Alan reminds us that we have a responsibility to vote faithfully, in the light of Catholic principles. This duty relates to today’s Gospel in that we can choose to correspond with God’s grace, or we can decline. In any case, our choices will be measured against the Divine Will. Nothing compares to the offer God the Father makes us, but unlike the offer of “the Godfather” in the movies, God the Father’s is an offer we CAN (but shouldn’t) refuse.

In the parable of those invited to the banquet who decline to come when called, we have a warning of the danger of not corresponding with God’s grace, of preferring our own will to His: “none of those men … will taste My dinner.”

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday in the 31st Week in Ordinary Time – Wkdy

Readings: 
1st: Phil 2:5-11
Resp: Ps 22:26-27, 28-30, 31-32
Gsp: Lk 14:15-24

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Fr. Mathias Sasko gives a short easy to understand presentation on moral guidelines for responsible Catholic voting in a democratic nation.

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