How do I form my conscience for voting?

Learn about Catholic Social Teaching.

What is Catholic Social Teaching

1.     Human Dignity

2.     Solidarity

3.     Subsidiarity

The Common Good

Catholic Social Teaching and Politics

The Family

How to engage with the material: 

Pray – Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you as you learn. Come Holy Spirit!

Read – Review the articles on each topic of Catholic Social Teaching.

Reflect – What resonated with you? What are you wrestling with from the reading? Bring these to prayer, search in the Catechism, or talk to your priest if you feel stuck. 

Respond – How will this principle inform your voting?

Learn More about Catholic Social Teaching

• Four Dangers to Society
• Preferential Option for the Poor
• Right to Private Property
• Universal Destination of All Goods
• Dignity of Work
• Culture and Catholic Social Teaching
• Economics and Catholic Social Teaching

Contemporary Issues – What does the Church teach about:

• Abortion
• Climate Change
• Death Penalty
• Democratic Socialism
• Gender Identity
• Human Ecology
• Immigration
• Racism
• Universal Health Care