A Warning to Wisconsin Catholics

 We don't think that Catholic AWFLs and their spouses who are key to the elections of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices will heed this warning, but here goes.

... So how can someone who claims to be a Catholic, who attends Mass regularly and takes Communion, possibly support the demonic evil represented by today’s Democrat (they’re not democratic) party?  If he doesn’t want to vote for a Republican, should he vote for a third-party candidate, or simply abstain?

In Catholic moral theology, the question of how a faithful Catholic should vote — especially when major candidates endorse intrinsic evils — requires careful discernment of cooperation with evil and proportionate reasons.  Formal cooperation with evil is never permissible.  It occurs when one directly intends and wills the evil act itself, such as voting for a candidate precisely because of his support for grave moral wrongs like abortion or euthanasia.  This renders the voter guilty of the evil and unworthy to receive Holy Communion.  I would go so far as to say that such a position should result in excommunication.  Can a person holding such views be considered a Catholic, or a devout Christian?

Material cooperation, by contrast, is indirect and remote.  A Catholic who rejects a candidate’s immoral positions but votes for him for other reasons engages only in remote material cooperation.  This can be morally licit when “proportionate reasons” exist — grave moral considerations that outweigh the evil tolerated. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) clarified this in his 2004 memorandum: A vote for such a candidate would be formal cooperation “if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia,” but it becomes permissible remote material cooperation “in the presence of proportionate reasons.”

Proportionate reasons must be exceptionally weighty, especially for high offices that shape laws affecting millions of lives.  They are not mere policy preferences or partisan loyalty, but genuine attempts to limit greater harm, such as choosing the candidate less likely to advance intrinsic evils like abortion on a massive scale.  The U.S. bishops’ “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” echoes this: Catholics may vote for a flawed candidate only for “truly grave moral reasons,” not narrow interests....

Let's make this clear:  voting for the pro-abortion SCOWI candidate--if you are Catholic--puts your soul in immediate grave danger of going to Hell.

We've seen two abortion-elections to SCOWI in the last three years, and there is no question that "Catholic" women--and perhaps their husbands--were critical to those abominations.

Sadly, you will not find Catholic priests and Bishops making this point.

They have no balls.