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Obama got 53% of the Catholic vote!!!!!!!!!!!!

Based on an unscientific exit poll where one can self identify as anything they want.

Same polls indicate that Obowma received 78% of the Jewish vote, 66% of the Hispanic vote, 63% of the Asian vote and 95% of the black vote. Numbers which I'm sure you were going to get around to posting ... eventually.

SO right you are, many a cradle catholic out there that never attends church

I had NO idea that this letter was written by Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) and brazenly *concealed* by Archbishop McCarrick ~~~~~!!!!! That is simply unbelievable.

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“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion.

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia. 

Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. 

When "these precautionary measures have not had their effect or in which they were not possible," and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, "the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it" (cf. Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts Declaration "Holy Communion and Divorced, Civilly Remarried Catholics" [2002], nos. 3-4).

This decision, properly speaking, is not a sanction or a penalty. Nor is the minister of Holy Communion passing judgment on the person’s subjective guilt, but rather is reacting to the person’s public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin."

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God bless Pope Benedict ... a perfectly reasoned and beautifully written statement of truth.