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Virtual Reading Room
The entirety of our website, Roman Catholics for Obama, is our comprehensive case for Senator Barack Obama as the best and right candidate for Catholic voters. Many of us have been interested in and impressed by others' cases for Senator Obama... and many of us have taken note of some high-profile endorsements of Obama by individual Catholics. However, the consensus was that we did want clearly to differentiate between what is "of" this site and what is not.
With that in mind -- note that while we agree with the conclusions reached by those who have endorsed Senator Obama, their precise views and arguments are not necessarily our precise views or arguments. For external content, we have decided to adhere to some strict standards and list only what is
1. of or relating to the central authority of the Church and its officials (neutral on the 2008 presidential campaign); OR
2. directly related to the central case of our site -- namely, that we, as Catholics, believe Catholics can and should vote for Barack Obama because his platform aligns well with Catholic Social Teaching and/or because Obama possesses unique qualities of a leader that make him well suited for the office -- each aspect of his candidacy being necessary, but not sufficient:
(a) news articles (not commentary) that examine Senator Obama's views, record or qualities relating to issues deemed relevant; or
(b) commentary whose central theme is the same as ours -- meaning that it is the perspective of a Catholic making the case for Barack Obama based on Catholic-oriented contemplation of the vote.
10 points for Catholic citizens to remember
(http://www.archden.org/dcr/news.php?e=454&s=2&a=9553)
Archbishop Chaput of Denver remarks on faithful Catholic citizenship in America. "[C]an a Catholic in good conscience support a 'pro-choice' candidate? The answer is: I can’t and I won’t," he notes, but he continues, "Catholics can support 'pro-choice' candidates if they support them despite -- not because of -- their 'pro-choice' views."
The Social Agenda -- a collection of Pontifical documents
(http://www.thesocialagenda.com/)
Features the central statements of the Roman Pontiffs on Catholic Social Teaching (CST), by theme: nature of CST, human person, family, social order, role of the state,, economy, work and wages, poverty and charity, environment, international community.
110th Congress Scorecard
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
http://www.networklobby.org/issues/alsoofinterest/2007VotingRec.pdf
Senator Obama earned a rating of 100 percent during the 110th Congress, First Session, from NETWORK based on the organization's assessment of 12 votes according to the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It should be noted that NETWORK scores candidates against its scorecard, not against each other, and does not endorse candidates.
Obama cites role in death penalty reform
(http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/12/obama.death.penalty.ap/)
The AP writes: "Barack Obama can honestly claim to have made a difference on a matter of life and death. While an Illinois state senator, Obama was key in getting the state's notorious death penalty laws changed, including a requirement that in most cases police interrogations involving capital crimes must be recorded."
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