A quick round-up...

... of some things related to Catholics, voting, and life issues:

• "Voters Guide for Serious Catholics", from Catholic Answers. Includes video, booklets, etc.
• "The Catholic Vote", from EWTN, including audio and video files, as well as links to several documents.
• "Catholic Voting and the 'Seamless Garment' Theory," (PDF) from  Envoy Institute, written by Dr. Mark Lowery, a fine moral theologian who teaches at the University of Dallas

• "Pro-Life Catholics For Obama", by George Weigel. October 14th article for Newsweek. Reaction from Commonweal.
• "Can a Catholic Vote in Support of Abortion?", by Bishop Finn, posted on the Catholic Key blog.
• Robert George takes up the slavery analogy that I've also employed (and has been around for a while) in examining the argument that "pro-choice" is not "pro-abortion."
• Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer of Human Life International examines the link between abortion and euthanasia.
• Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Primate of Canada and archbishop of Quebec City, says that "secularist fundamentalism" is responsible for "spiritual vacuum" and rising rates of abortions and suicides.
• Bishop Martin D. Holley, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, decries the fact that "Black women continue to be targeted by the abortion industry."
• Archbishop John Vlazny of Portland, Oregon, reflects on the causes of the "culture of death" and what can be done to fight it.
• Michael A. Fragoso writes for MercatorNet.com about the various attempts by pro-abortion activists to silence physicians who conscienciously object against abortions.
• National Catholic Register reports on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban sex-selective abortions.

Since Ignatius Press is a non-profit apostolate, Ignatius Insight is not permitted to engage in partisan political activity. The purpose of linking to these pieces and others, in addition to publishing related commentary and articles, is to address issues of concern to Catholics from the perspective of Catholic teaching. Those issues include abortion, euthanasia, experimentation on embryonic human beings, cloning, and same-sex marriage. It also includes other issues that involve "non-negotiables", and even issues that include some "negotiables".  Such discussion, of course, is undertaken in the context of making people aware of Ignatius Press authors, books, magazines, videos, and other resources, as well as issues related to the mission of Ignatius Press, which is to promulgate the Catholic faith through media such as books, magazines, videos, and, yes, the internet.

Also, as usual, comments posted on the blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Ignatius Press or its staff.

Some related articles from Ignatius Insight:

• What Is "Legal"? On Abortion, Democracy, and Catholic Politicians | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
• What Is Catholic Social Teaching? | Mark Brumley
• The Case Against Abortion | An Interview with Dr. Francis Beckwith, author of Defending Life
• Introduction to Three Approaches to Abortion | Peter Kreeft
• The Illusion of Freedom Separated from Moral Virtue | Raymond L. Dennehy
• Excommunication! | An interview with canon lawyer Dr. Edward Peters
• Some Atrocities are Worse than Others | Mary Beth Bonacci
• Personally Opposed--To What? | Dr. James Hitchcock
• Mixed Messages | Phil Lawler            

Comments

[Jackson]

The Robert George "Obama's Abortion Extremism" essay can no longer be found at that link. It's now here:

http://tinyurl.com/3gm2ph

[Jackson]

I may have given the wrong link just now. This should be the right one:

http://tinyurl.com/3gm2ph

[T E Drury]

Another one worth looking at, from Bishop Serratelli of Paterson, NJ: http://www.patersondiocese.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=2752

"Freedom is based on the truth of the human person as created by God and protected by his law.
When a ruler can decide against God’s law, true freedom is sentenced to death."

[Carl E. Olson]

Thanks, Jackson, for pointing out the dead link. I've updated it.