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Catholic Culture: "[R]eluctant to vote for.. Trump..important to consider what Catholic exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger stated..'faithful have an obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils'"

Trump: The lesser of two evils is a moral choice

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Aug 27, 2024 — [T]he faithful have an obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils. However, that's not the same as voting for evil…. John Paul II had ...

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Anonymous said…
This seems to be an error, since being permitted to is not the same as being obligated to materially cooperating with evil.
8:03 AM
Anonymous said…
And according to moral theology it would be at least material cooperation with evil.
8:08 AM
Fred Martinez said…
Burke: “You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion.“He adds that voters “may in some circumstances, where you don’t have any candidate who is proposing to eliminate all abortion, choose the candidate who will most limit this grave evil in our country.
9:02 AM
Fred Martinez said…
Cardinal Ratzinger, Archbishop Burke, Bishop Gracida, Bishop Carlson and others correctly teach that a Catholic could vote for a pro-abortion candidate without incurring formal cooperation in evil (mortal sin) if that candidate would limit the harm by lessening the number of abortions.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6160
9:05 AM
Anonymous said…
May is not must. To say we must is to teach error.
10:55 AM
Fred Martinez said…
Are you, Feser & Lila Rose the anti-Musk for Harris?: Musk may elect Trump.."point of the Musk vote is..to get people to bother with voting..This is a turnout election. Again. Every election since 1992 has"
11:19 AM
Fred Martinez said…
Fleming's "The Morality of Everyday Life," shows how a mother's love for the good of her family is not below the Kantian Categorical Imperative of purely abstract, universal principles like those espoused by Immanuel Kant highlighting how such principles can sometimes clash with the concrete realities of motherly love and the needs of her husband and children as well as the need to live in a non-tyrannical country while fulfilling the “'obligation' to vote for the lesser of two evil."

It appears that Feser may think that the Kantian Categorical Imperative of abstract formulas is the most important principle for voting unlike the simple family man who wrote the following:

The Democrats are not just the godless Party of evil. They are the godless totalitarian Party of compelled evil - participation is mandatory, not voluntary.

They are changing the basic rules of governance, shredding the Constitution and imposing a tyranny by fiat. There is no opt-out in the future Bolshevik States of America. Civic rules and morals is whatever they say it is and all must agree in thought, word and deed.

Christians who refuse to support the “flawed” Party over the “evil” Party are tacitly accepting this impending revolution of Bolshevik tyrannical evil.

As has been seen by some commenters on this blog … many Christians are doing just that -

https://www.newsweek.com/christians-not-voting-five-alarm-fire-trump-1965304

This is a terrible mistake of prudential judgement - and perhaps fatal. [https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2024/10/vote-for-party-that-inflicts-lesser.html]
11:20 AM
Fred Martinez said…
Anonymous said:
May is not must. To say we must is to teach error.

Good point. I need to research all the angles. Right now maybe I can say "should" not "must" until I look into it more.
1:17 PM
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