Call to Rescind the October 8th Pastoral Letter

To:  Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas

We, the undersigned Catholics, respectfully request that Bishop Kevin Farrell reconsider and retract his pastoral letter of October 8th which implicitly endorsed a presidential candidate without naming him.

The list of what the church calls "intrinsically evil acts" does not begin and end with abortion. In fact, there are many intrinsically evil acts, and a committed Catholic must consider all of them in deciding how to vote. His Holiness Pope John Paul II said in Evangelium Vitae that “The Christian faith is an integral unity, and thus it is incoherent to isolate some particular element to the detriment of the whole of Catholic doctrine. A political commitment to a single isolated aspect of the church’s social doctrine does not exhaust one’s responsibility towards the common good.”

A prudently considered faithful vote for a candidate who does not call for overturning Roe v. Wade--but who does reflect virtually all Catholic social teaching--does not meet any logical standard of “materially participating or cooperating in an an intrinsic evil” and should not be labeled as such by our bishop.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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