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Catholics In Public Life: Judges, Legislators, And Voters, Gregory A. Kalscheur S.J.
Catholics In Public Life: Judges, Legislators, And Voters, Gregory A. Kalscheur S.J.
Gregory A. Kalscheur, S.J.
Does the desire to avoid culpable cooperation in moral evil make the conscientious Catholic judge unfit for judicial service in a constitutional system that will inevitably bring before the judge cases that implicate a host of issues as to which the Church offers moral teaching? Confused answers to this question reflect a larger confusion which often accompanies contemporary discussion of questions related to Catholic participation in public life. The confusion stems in large part from a failure to recognize that Catholics participate in public life in different ways that give them different sorts of public roles. This Essay tries to …