{"id":7486,"date":"2004-04-15T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/archbishop_chaput_weighs_in.html"},"modified":"2004-04-15T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T15:01:26","slug":"archbishop_chaput_weighs_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/archbishop_chaput_weighs_in.html","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Chaput weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archden.org\/dcr\/news.php?e=75&amp;s=2&amp;a=1835\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The right to life comes first. It precedes and undergirds every other social issue or group of issues. This is why Blessed John XXIII listed it as the first human right in his great encyclical on world peace, Pacem in Terris. And as the U.S. bishops stressed in their 1998 pastoral letter Living the Gospel of Life, the right to life is the foundation of every other right.<\/p>\n<p>The humorist James Thurber once wrote that &#8220;you can fool too many of the people too much of the time.&#8221; Our job as Catholics this election year \u2014 if we&#8217;re serious about our faith \u2014 is to not get fooled. <\/p>\n<p>Candidates who claim to be &#8220;Catholic&#8221; but who publicly ignore Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life are offering a dishonest public witness. They may try to look Catholic and sound Catholic, but unless they act Catholic in their public service and political choices, they&#8217;re really a very different kind of creature. <\/p>\n<p>And real Catholics should vote accordingly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here The right to life comes first. It precedes and undergirds every other social issue or group of issues. 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