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The questions listed here are to help guide Catholics in their efforts to make moral and prudential decisions about candidates and public policies.

The news did not slow down during the summer. Here is a round-up.

The North Dakota Catholic Conference has urged Catholics of the state to support the rules, not only because they are morally right, but also because they would allow North Dakota to once again enforce its own laws.

The Church’s social doctrine rooted in sound principles can serve as a model to prevent us from blindly accepting the new just because it is new.

The most absurd and horrifying example of the acceptance of will over objective reality is our nation’s approach to abortion.

Laws come from three sources, some of them interrelated.

The Gospel is also clear about the dignity of all human persons.

The marginalization of and willful blindness toward persons with disabilities should come as no surprise when we recognize that society not only allows but encourages destroying those persons prenatally.

Rather than looking at Him as a spirit among us, we should look for Him in each other.

The root of the ugly divisiveness that threatens our country—and sadly many others—is a failure to see the “other” as one of us.

The consumer has the primary responsibility to sift through the information, find the truth, and then act on it.

Against a world that is motivated by self-interest, Catholic social doctrine takes a stand for all human persons. 

Tu quoque logic appeals appear in response to almost every statement issued by the bishops on public policy matters.

Being a missionary disciple is not something that happens solely within spaces of worship, parishes, Catholic schools, or diocesan offices. It must become who we are in our being.

We do not have to understand another’s religious beliefs, and we certainly do not have to agree with them. We do, however, need to respect them.

The Catholic view rejects the individualistic view of freedom and teaches something more akin to the communal view.

The North Dakota Catholic Conference is tracking about 150 bills, though most have no impact on concerns for the Church.

Catholic doctrine on education is basically a call to solidarity and empowerment.

We are talking about real help for women and children in the womb.

Whenever the powers that be get too comfortable with outside powers and what are considered the elite, the people on the prairie react.