Sunday, September 09, 2012

THE CATHOLIC VOTE IN 2012?



Read a great front page article in this Sunday’s Detroit Free Press: HOW NUNS HAVE BECOME SOLDIERS IN THE BATTLE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE by Patricia Montemurri.

Romney has used nuns in the old penguin habits in some of his videos while the modern nuns were featured during the Democratic National Convention.

The article is not just about nuns in this political fight but about the Catholic vote in general and why both candidates are going after that vote. Catholics are not united but split the same as the general population is and so we have Democratic Catholics and we have Republican Catholics and then we have the swing Catholics that can go either way.

Catholics are further divided into white Catholics and Latino Catholics; last election Latino Catholics voted for Obama while white Catholics voted for McCain…interesting…

I find it interesting that the Catholic vote still boils down to basics; abortion rights, gay marriage and anti-birth control (contraception) which are considered social issues.

I am still puzzled by the fact that people who call themselves active or observant Catholics defy their own church leaders and believe what they “know is right” and vote “their conscience” and don’t consider themselves “any less Catholic” for doing so…interesting.

My question then is “what does it mean to be Catholic in this day and age”.

I think our modern day nuns are answering that question for not only Catholics but all Christians. The nuns are out tending to those humans that are in need, something they feel Jesus did in his time and they are only following His example.

I have always maintained that the Vatican has lost its way many centuries ago and has become a government unto itself, concerned only with itself and its existence and to hell with the human race.

This election will put Catholics in the spotlight and that is good. The spotlight will show the deep divisions among white Catholics in America and reveal where most Catholics stand on issues and that is something the Vatican will not like to see…maybe the nuns should take over the Vatican and make it into a real church.









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