Protect the Vote

Authors Clarke E Cochran and David Cochran remind us that Catholic teaching cannot be reduced to a single issue in their latest book, The Catholic Vote: A Guide for the Perplexed. It is an easy-to-understand guide to current issues, including the economy, poverty, health care, family crime, war, race and ethnicity, immigration, the environment and the protection of all human life. The book is written for Catholics who want to participate in their country's political life while putting into practice the Catholic values of life, dignity, solidarity ad proper stewardship.

Its five chapters cover the importance of participating in the political life of a community; the extent to which catholic values influence catholic voter choices the significant issues; how to evaluate candidates for office; and how the catholic tradition can transform our political landscape.

TIA's Election Year program - One Nation, Many Faiths - analyzes and interprets the role that religion plays in an election year and seeks to establish a partnership between religion and government that preserves the autonomy of houses of worship and ensures that religious institutions are not held accountable to the priorities and interests of political candidates.  TIA has now created a resource in video form that will further aid houses of worship in their understanding of how people of faith should engage themselves in nonpartisan election year activities.