[jobim]

Thanks for your observation. I think you might be right: he's proposing a Catholic Voter's guide for Utopian Catholics who Can't Bring Themselves to Vote.

As it is said, politics is the art of the possible. We cannot compromise with our faith (faith and morals) but we must compromise with the Public Square to mitigate evil.

[ArrogantBustard]

Actually, he's suggesting a sixth criterion: support of unjust wars. You can't vote for a politician who would wage unjust wars ... that's murder as surely as abortion is murder. The not-so-hidden subtext is the assumption that the ongoing efforts to destroy islamic terrorists in Iraq and other places constitute an unjust war. This belief seems common, though not universal, in 'Traditionalist' circles. I disagree with them. The trouble with this fellow is that he's so vehemently opposed to the war on islamic terrorists that he's willing to vote for pro-sodomy, pro-abortion, pro-cloning, pro-cannibalism, pro-euthanasia politicians in order to end the war. And he's trying to twist the facts sufficiently to give the appearance that Catholic teaching justifies such a vote.

I disagree.