Here's the USCCB document:
http://www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship/FCStatement.pdf
Here are some discussion questions (add discussion points or tangents at will):
1.What is conscience? What is prudence? How does one develop a well-formed conscience and the virtue of prudence? What role should they play in our decisions about who we vote for and how we advocate for change? (For help, see nos. 17-20.)
2.What do the bishops mean when they say, Both opposing evil and doing good are essential obligations (no. 24)? Why are both (not just one or the other) important for Catholics? What are examples of intrinsic evils and why must they always be opposed? What are examples of supporting the common good? (For help, see nos. 21-25.) What might your own actions to avoid evil and to do good look like?
3. The bishops describe two temptations in public life that voters can fall into: first, moral equivalence which makes no ethical distinctions between different kinds of issues involving human life and dignity, and second, the misuse of moral distinctions as a way of dismissing or ignoring other serious threats to human life and dignity. (See nos. 27-29.) Describe a situation in which you witnessed one or both of these lines of thought. Why are they both distortions of the Churchs teaching?
(taken from: http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/resources/discussion)
Please add your personal opinions about this document: your objections, where think it might stray from the heart of the matter, whther you think such a document should even exist---or what you really think it's got right, why it is necessary, what challenged you.
http://www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship/FCStatement.pdf
Here are some discussion questions (add discussion points or tangents at will):
1.What is conscience? What is prudence? How does one develop a well-formed conscience and the virtue of prudence? What role should they play in our decisions about who we vote for and how we advocate for change? (For help, see nos. 17-20.)
2.What do the bishops mean when they say, Both opposing evil and doing good are essential obligations (no. 24)? Why are both (not just one or the other) important for Catholics? What are examples of intrinsic evils and why must they always be opposed? What are examples of supporting the common good? (For help, see nos. 21-25.) What might your own actions to avoid evil and to do good look like?
3. The bishops describe two temptations in public life that voters can fall into: first, moral equivalence which makes no ethical distinctions between different kinds of issues involving human life and dignity, and second, the misuse of moral distinctions as a way of dismissing or ignoring other serious threats to human life and dignity. (See nos. 27-29.) Describe a situation in which you witnessed one or both of these lines of thought. Why are they both distortions of the Churchs teaching?
(taken from: http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/resources/discussion)
Please add your personal opinions about this document: your objections, where think it might stray from the heart of the matter, whther you think such a document should even exist---or what you really think it's got right, why it is necessary, what challenged you.