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Can a Catholic support him : asking the big question about Barack Obama / Douglas W. Kmiec, introduction by Martin Sheen.

Title
Can a Catholic support him : asking the big question about Barack Obama / Douglas W. Kmiec, introduction by Martin Sheen.
Author
Kmiec, Douglas W.
Publication
Woodstock, NY : The Overlook Press, 2008.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Sheen, Martin
Description
174 p.; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Can a Catholic support Barack Obama?
Subject
  • Abortion > Catholic Church
  • Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > United States
  • Christianity and politics > United States > Catholic Church
  • Christianity and politics > United States
  • Obama, Barack > Political and social views
  • Presidents > United States > Elections > 2008
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-171).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The misstatement of Catholic duty -- Catholic duty reconsidered -- The importance of the Catholic vote -- Catholic and pro-life -- Roe is wrong, but that's not the point -- So let me get this straight: you were for Romney, and now you're for Obama? -- ObamApostasy -- Not just one way: Obama's optimistic truth of the human person -- Protecting life by deploying Catholics' best kept secret -- Life and the presumption against war -- Playing the nonnegotiable abortion card -- Butting into what is Caesar's? -- Obama as Catholic worker -- Is there a Catholic case for Roe? -- Of endorsement, excommunication, and thoughtful examination -- Obama's faith sustaining his audacious hope -- "To give or not to give": the archbishops and communion -- The Catholic voter: what would Tim Russert do? -- Paying the price of faith: communion denied -- The significance of faith for a man of hope -- Catholic and American -- Catholic officials and Catholic voters: when law and morality disagree -- Catholic judges -- Catholic legislative and executive policymakers -- Catholic moral reasoning redux.
ISBN
  • 9781590202043
  • 159020204X