As in every year divisible by four, Americans will elect a president in November 2024. While the major parties’ respective primary processes have already begun, the turn of the new year focuses our national attention on this quadrennial circus. After the parties nominate their respective candidates sometime in late spring or early summer, those nominees will commence slinging rhetorical bombs at one another, further sinking American political culture into the slough of despond.
As in the last several presidential elections, this one is a challenge to conscientious Catholics who want to apply the entirety of Catholic moral thought to our voting decisions. Thus, for Catholics, the presidential election is the occasion to revisit our commitment to the teachings of the Church as we consider preferred candidates and public-policy issues (something Catholics in the UK will also have to contend with come their own election time).
