There's a fascinating series of articles on the subject in the October 8 issue of Commonweal. Robert Royal of the Faith and Reason Institute on why he's voting for Bush; Thomas Higgins, CEO of a biotechnology company in San Francisco, on why he's voting for Kerry; and Paul Griffiths, Schmitt Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, on why he's sitting this one out. To my way of thinking, Griffiths is by far the most persuasive, especially given that there's no significant difference between the candidates on the war (and the nice thing about living in Indiana is that its electoral votes are set in Republican amber, so a presidential vote won't mean much one way or the other) but I'd like to know what others think. It's available online at http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=956

Michael