Sunday, March 14, 2004
CNS: Wake up! says bishop
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) -- Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn told the people of his diocese that Catholics have "a basic obligation" to participate in political life, but must participate with a "properly formed" conscience. Writing March 6 in his diocesan weekly, The Tablet, he said the American principle of church-state separation had "perhaps led some to avoid forming their consciences properly" in accord with church teaching and "the true good willed by God." "Catholics may choose among political parties and may choose strategies for promoting the common good, but may never promote laws which are incompatible with the faith and with natural law," he said.
