2024 election checklist: Five ways Catholic parishes can keep politics out of church
Politics tamfitronics (RNS) — Few parishioners want to see their parishes turned into partisan battlefields, but with the Catholic community divided between Republicans (52%) and Democrats (44%), many parishes face this danger. Both campaigns are appealing to Catholic voters because shifting even a small percentage of Catholics in key swing states like Pennsylvania could determine the outcome of the presidential election.A recent poll sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter has former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris among Catholic voters in battleground states by 5 percentage points (50% to 45%).But unlike earlier elections, this year Republicans are not staking their Catholic appeal on abortion, because they see it as a negative issue for them. Instead, they are...