Catholic Citizenship and Voting Resource Page

Folks, apologies for my long blogging hiatus.  I hope to make it up to you all this summer.  To start, Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work has just launched a new resource page on Catholic Citizenship and Voting.  As many of you know, I’m a fan of the 2007 document issued by the United States Bishops, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” so that’s the first link.  It also includes my contribution to the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies symposium on that document, due out this summer.  You may recognize some of the musings in my previous blogging on how the category of intrinsic evil should intersect with voting.  Here’s the blurb: 

Which voter’s guide gives the most reliable account of Catholic teaching? This essay compares Forming Consciences, the document issued by the US Bishop’s Conference in November 2007, with the Catholic Action Answers’ “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics.” It argues that Serious Catholics fails to captures the tradition’s nuanced intersection between moral values and their practical implementation in the sphere of politics; and that Forming Consciences serves as a more complete and helpful guide for Catholic voters.

Other musings at the intersection of Catholic social thought and political life touch on the topics of conscience, abortion, torture, and immigration.  Enjoy!  Amy