[JohnnyZ]

Burke later clarified the statement to say Catholics can vote for such candidates if they believe the candidate's stance on other moral issues outweighs the abortion-rights stance.

I think that's a generous reading of what Burke said. The line was that it was theoretically possible for other moral issues to outweigh abortion, but it would strain the imagination to discover what kind of extraordinary circumstance that might be.

[paguch]

Burke later clarified the statement to say Catholics can vote for such candidates if they believe the candidate’s stance on other moral issues outweighs the abortion-rights stance.

This surely needs clarified since it also applies to the Kennedy’s, Pelosi, Durbin, and the vast majority of Catholics in the Congress.

Hopefully Bishop Tobin is clarifying things.