{"id":2787,"date":"2008-09-24T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/more-catholic-voting-guides.html"},"modified":"2008-09-24T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:25:00","slug":"more-catholic-voting-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/more-catholic-voting-guides.html","title":{"rendered":"More Catholic voting guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/deacbench.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/making-your-choice-catholic-voting.html\">some links<\/a> to Catholic voting guides. <\/p>\n<p>More have now joined the fray. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicdigest.com\/article\/election-home\">Catholic Digest<\/a> is offering a comprehensive overview for Catholics. <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/elections\/voterguide.htm\">Priests for Life<\/a> has a guide from a pro-life perspective.  <\/p>\n<p>Check &#8217;em out before you pull the lever!  And I&#8217;ll try to add more as I learn of more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I posted some links to Catholic voting guides. More have now joined the fray. Catholic Digest is offering a comprehensive overview for Catholics. And Priests for Life has a guide from a pro-life perspective. Check &#8217;em out before you pull the lever! And I&#8217;ll try to add more as I learn of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-r-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More Catholic voting guides - The Deacon&#039;s Bench<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/more-catholic-voting-guides.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Catholic voting guides - The Deacon&#039;s Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earlier this month, I posted some links to Catholic voting guides. 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