Reviews for Can a Catholic Support Him?: Asking the Big Question About Barack Obama

The average rating for Can a Catholic Support Him?: Asking the Big Question About Barack Obama based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-27 00:00:00 Toshiio Munekane Catholicism is not a single-party platform Mr. Kmiec is provides the Big Answer to the Big Question of can a Catholic support Barack Obama. Mr. Kmiec makes his case for Catholics casting their vote for Obama - guilt free: "...it violates no aspect of Catholic teaching for a Catholic voter to endorse, support or vote for Barack Obama, even if Senator Obama sees better ways for reducing abortion than pressing for the Supreme Court to reverse Roe. Any claimed Catholic duty to the contrary is nonexistent." pg. 36 Although Mr. Kmiec is qualified in the areas of Constitutional law and Catholicism, don't just take his word on it. In this book, Kmiec cites leading authorities, including Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), et. al. I believe Mr. Kmiec's intention here is to provide information to assist the voter in making a conscientious choice. He reminds us that overturning Roe v. Wade is not the litmus test for choosing a candidate. A candidate may provide numerous alternatives to abortion. A candidate may have a strong, as Kmiec puts it, `Social Teaching' platform. A candidate may take strong faith-based positions on other human life issues. All of these a Catholic voter must carefully consider before ultimately deciding on whom to vote for.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-11-12 00:00:00 Greg Carnevale This is a thoughtful book on a difficult subject--how a pro-life Catholic could support Barack Obama's presidential campaign in spite of Obama's support of Roe v. Wade. Kmiec's main point seemed to be that Obama's other positions are far more in keeping with Catholic social teaching than McCain's, and that pro-lifers have mistakenly put all their political eggs into the single basket of overturning Roe, which would in actuality only send the issue back to the fifty individual states, and in no way addresses larger issues of reducing actual numbers of abortions.