The last several months have witnessed a great deal of media attention to the responsibilities of Catholics in the political arena, whether those Catholics are politicians or citizens voting. Most of the discussion by the chattering class has been simply a mass of confusion. As I tried to think through the issues involved, I thought it might be useful to some others to read the reflections I came up with. I am not by training an op-ed writer, but a philosopher. Thus these reflections are long by the standards of the New York Times, but short by my own. I thought it more helpful to provide a link to them so that they can be downloaded, rather than to monopolize the space of the blog. It is in WORD format. This is the first time I've tried this, so I hope it works.

SacredMonkeys.doc

"Pray for me, as I will for thee, that we may meet merrily in Heaven."

John O'Callaghan
ndethics@nd.edu