In case you don't look at our homepage as often as you visit our blog, I'd like to call to your attention to a new web-only article -- one more perspective on the complications of voting as a Catholic in this election. Here's a sample of the piece, which is by William J. Gould:

In this political and religious climate, I find Doug Kmiecs support for Sen. Barack Obama a salutary and refreshing development. I say this as someone who does not fully share Kmiecs enthusiastic embrace of Obama or his high expectations regarding what an Obama presidency is likely to achieve. Instead I write as someone who has long been disenchanted with American politics and who fully expects that we will continue to be ill-governed no matter who wins the election.

Read the whole thing here.

Mollie Wilson O’​Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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