I refer you to post #90 again where the Church teaches that there are conditions that may relieve a Catholic from the obligation to vote (the section conveniently left out by "catholicapologetics").

It's irrelevant to my point.  

This is grave slander against Pope Leo XIII, and the false accusation creates grave scandal.  Prove it or retract your statement.


AT BEST you can make the case that it's permitted based on double effect in certain concrete cases, but one is never required to do so.

https://sspx.ca/en/the-catholic-dilemma-in-voting
XavierSem, you declared that Catholics have a moral obligation to vote for Trump, but you're disagreeing with the SSPX here, whom you slavishly support.  Please explain.

You will find it in Canon Law #70 on the Moral Obligation of voting. Also very important checkout Pope Pius XI admonition of Catholics for  Hitler getting into power.

same Canon Law Study 1952 #70 I want to make it clear when Pope Leo spoke of voting for a Socialist he was speaking of Italy. Pope Pius XII in his "Allocution to the International Union Leagues of Catholic Women", September 12, 1947:  "Consequently heavy is the responsibility of anyone, man or woman, who has the right to voting, especially when religious interests are at stake. As they well know, Abstention in such case would of itself be a grave and deadly sin of omission.

Joe Biden promises to undo Trump-era pro-life policies if elected president
In his 'Agenda for Women,' Biden promised to restore domestic and overseas funding to the abortion industry.
Wed Jul 29, 2020 - 12:18 pm EST
 
 
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — In his Agenda for Women released Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to restore domestic and overseas funding to the abortion industry. The Trump administration has made an effort not to finance abortions with federal money.
Biden dedicated one section of his Agenda for Women to “Reproductive Health,” which is generally a reference to abortion. The former vice president under President Barack Obama said he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”
Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling essentially legalizing abortion across the country under the guise of a woman’s right to privacy. Many states passed legislation trying to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies. One piece of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills, which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
Joe Biden said he wanted to repeal the Hyde Amendment by reissuing “guidance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump Administration’s rule preventing these organizations from obtaining Title X funds.”
Planned Parenthood provides more than 345,000 abortions annually, according to its most recent report. Additionally, the organization handed out more than 593,000 emergency contraception kits, commonly known as the morning-after pill, which can also cause abortions in many cases.
Biden’s plan would, accordingly, enable women to abort their babies using taxpayer money.

The political left in the United States does not have, deep down, a political philosophy in the strict sense of the term. More accurately, it is an ideology whose motto is derived from Thrasymachus (mentioned above): the aim of politics is to attain and maintain power. The riots and civic unrest experienced since the end of May are coordinated attempts to cause social instability and political decline. And because the actions of the rioters are being intentionally portrayed within the category of identity politics, then it is undeniable that their framework is, and will be, that of the contemporary Democratic party. It does not seem much of a stretch to equate “being woke” with “being a Democrat.” This admission is no longer something requiring proof, but is overwhelmingly self-evident.

As this alignment between rioters and the political left has solidified, we can also affirm the unconventional success of President Trump. For whatever one thinks of his various strategies, it seems incontestable now that since taking office, the President has had a singular focus in getting those on the political left to reveal their cards. I agree with the assessment of the political philosopher Joshua Mitchell, who contends that Trump’s use of Twitter is like a “sixth sense.” The President’s tweets act as a kind of sonar sent out into the cosmos. He is waiting for a kind of reverberation, a bleep on the radar of public discussion wherein he can gauge some real sense of various dialectical narratives surrounding a said issue.

Trump’s tweets may be vulgar, crass, and un-presidential. But a limited defense of Trump does not rest upon his virtue, or even lack thereof. The fundamental concern within the tradition of classical political philosophy is not whether everyone can be a philosopher, even a sitting president. Instead, the issue is whether the very conditions of philosophy would still be possible. For Strauss, this was the political status of philosophy. Will the philosopher, or those who seek those truths that transcend the current political orthodoxy of mere opinions, be allowed to live in the liberal democratic regime? To put this more poignantly: would a President Trump bring a Socrates, or Christ, before him and threaten them with death if they did not give unfailing allegiance? Is hemlock or the Cross really possible in an America where Trump is President?

The answer to these latter questions would seem to be a resounding “No.” Of course, Trump is neither a philosopher, nor a rhetorician. The ad nauseam attacks that he is not are beside the point. What we should seek, at one level, are the social and political conditions whereby truth is still allowed to be voiced and heard. The tension before us as democratic citizens is whether nuance in thought is permissible. The dialectical squabbles over COVID-19, especially the ever increasing attempts to silence and snuff out dissenters, is providing disturbing answers.

Will a second term for President Trump ensure a victory for philosophy against tyranny? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps there is no better public visual of this classical tension incarnated in our time than in the recent congressional hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr. Like the rioters we see on the news, Barr’s interlocutors at the hearing were not interested in that thing called speech. The goal was much more sinister, and direct. They simply sought to smash, not his arguments, but his capacity to speak.

My hope would be that a continued Trump presidency, if it might be anything, can continue to support those conditions where truth can be uttered and heard. The alternative will not be a world of peace and rationality, of open dialogue and speech ordered towards grasping the truth. Instead, we will witness those political and social conditions wherein we come to worship in the only religion left, namely, the despotism of our own opinions.

https://kop61.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/a-limited-case-for-trump-hes-far-from-perfect-but-trump-carves-out-a-space-for-free-thought-as-the-rest-of-the-world-grows-increasingly-hostile-to-it/

We're going to get somebody for the presidency in November 2020 no matter what happens, that's a given. 

If you listen to the demoncrats, it is not a given. They are currently engaging in predictive programming and "war games" about what they will do when they "win" the (ballot harvesting) election. Trump, they say, will have to be escorted out of the White House by the military.
In 3rd world counties this is called a military coup, but the dems are actually planning for this (their "insurance policy" in case they can't get enough dead people to vote.)

Link please, for our edification, to this admonition of those wretched Catholics guilty of putting an end to the Weimar Republic.

Weimar was beyond degenerate, but unlike the nαzι state make no significant attach on Catholic education. The efforts of Bp von Galen and others restrained the takeover of Catholic education, but it happened.
Presumably Mit Berrender Sorge (German) is being referenced.

Now of course Catholic education was nearly destroyed thanks to V2. No one would give a fig if a Pres Biden was hostile to them, not that he would attack a reliable source of soc jus indoctrination.