How the Catholic vote became neutralized

Mark Gallagher explains how the Social Development and World Peace staff at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

prevailed and they pursued with the relevant bishops’ committees the first-ever Catholic voters guide published in 1976, called the “Political Responsibility Statement” (now called Faithful Citizenship).

Laura Wood writes that this voters guide for Catholics

presented moral relativism as a reliable guide for Catholics’ consciences and declined to identify the pro-abortion position as one Catholics may never support by voting for candidates who hold it