Election Time Thoughts
The purpose of law and government is not to flay the people but to make them virtuous. This is the true purpose of politics. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Society ought to promote the exercise of virtue, not obstruct it. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1895)
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (President John Adams in 1798)
It is to reverse all reason to suggest that a man’s politics matter and his religion does not matter. (G.K. Chesterton)
Many Christians today take their politics more seriously, more religiously, than their religion. They have a religious attitude toward politics and a political attitude toward religion. They worship the donkey or the elephant instead of the Lamb. (Peter Kreeft)
It is the home that decides the nation. What happens in the family will happen later in Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court. Every country gets the kind of government it deserves. As we live in the home, so shall the nation live. (Fulton J. Sheen)
In the exercise of economic and social functions, Catholics often encounter men who do not share their view of life. On such occasions, those who profess Catholicism must take special care to be consistent and not compromise in matters wherein the integrity of religion or morals would suffer harm. (Pope Saint John XXIII, Mother and Teacher)
In no sphere of life can the civil law take the place of conscience or dictate norms concerning things that are outside its competence. (Pope Saint John Paul II, The Gospel of Life)
The pro-abortion culture is especially strong where the Church’s teaching on contraception is rejected…[Contraception] regards procreation as an obstacle to personal fulfillment. The life that could result from a sexual encounter thus becomes an enemy to be avoided at all costs, and abortion becomes the only possible decisive response to failed contraception. The close connection that exists, in mentality, between the practice of contraception and that of abortion is becoming increasingly obvious. (Pope Saint John Paul II, The Gospel of Life)
Do what is right and just. Rescue the victim from the hand of his oppressor. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood. (Jeremiah 22:3)
~Fr Loftus