Faithful citizens

You can’t not vote. That would be irresponsible. That’s a total re-wording of the positive teaching of the Church to exercise personal liberties in a democracy with responsibility.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput continues to bring clarity to that teaching. Here’s a blurb about his new book on the subject.

“Catholic faith is ‘always personal, but never private,’ [the archbishop] continues. ‘Citizens serve their country best when they take their moral convictions respectfully, but unapologetically, into public debate … American Catholics are better citizens when they first live as more faithful Catholics.’