Thursday, November 02, 2006

More from Boethius et al on Pro-Abort "Catholics" in Michigan

A couple of days ago, I posted a roundup of links to Boethius' coverage of how the abortion issue is playing among Catholics in Michigan's gubernatorial election.

Boethius and Advocatus Militaris have supplemented that coverage with additional posts here, here, here, and here.

I find the last item, in which Boethius links to The American Papist's post about a Granholm ad that is running in 3 "authorized" Catholic newspapers, particularly outrageous. Notice the use of the "common good" language in Granholm's ad. Where have we heard that before?

Why, in the Democrat-sponsored "Catholic" voting guide, "Voting for the Common Good: A Practical Guide for Conscientious Catholics", of course.

It appears that "common good" is going to be the new mantra of Catholic Democrats. Too bad they continue to leave the unborn out of the community of persons for whose "common good" they claim to be working.


UPDATE
Jeff Miller at The Curt Jester has also noticed the trend toward liberal Catholics utilizing the catchphrase "common good":
It seems that the words "Common Good" are the progressive's latest phrase. I see it used now almost every day. I guess it replaces the "Seamless Garment", but to the same effect.
(hat tip: Publius)
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous11/02/2006 10:06 AM

    Re: the "common good" theme of the Democrats' campaign, they seem to think they can make up for their abysmal positions on abortion and other social issues by using a Catholic term/buzzword* in their campaign. The sad thing is that it might work.

    *It appeared 49 times in the English traslation of the documents of Vatican II that is available on the Vatican's website, more than "dialogue" at 44.

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  2. Anonymous11/02/2006 10:23 AM

    There were also 39 mentions of "common good" in Leo XIII's encyclicals and 34 in those of Pius XI.

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  3. Anonymous11/02/2006 11:24 PM

    It's interesting that the liberal Catholics are pretty much doing the same thing that the Democrats are doing: trying to modify their *language* in order to appeal to so-called values voters.

    It's too bad because "common good" is a legitimate term in Catholic social teaching and is what all Catholics *should* be working for. Unfortunately, what these liberal Democratics mean by "common good" is "socialist governmental programs." This is *not* what the Church's social encyclicals mean by the term.

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  4. Anonymous11/07/2006 9:48 PM

    I couldn't agree with boethius more!

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