I’M A POLITICAL science professor at a Catholic university in the Midwest that has a high percentage of very faithful Catholic students. Rosaries overflow the lost-and-found, icons beam down upon us in every hallway and there always seems to be a stray page of Aquinas’ Summa Theologica choking up the photocopier. Many of my students have strong convictions about public life – but even this close to the US presidential election, remarkably, I’m hearing almost no discussion about it.
17 October 2024, The Tablet
Between a rock and a hard place
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‘As a Catholic, my vote begins with my best estimation of how to further and protect the dignity of the human person’
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