Reply #16: Of course, individual catholics have always stood up for what was...

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...right and just, and have paid a heavy price too. I use the St. Francis prayer everyday. Perhaps this DU're can ask his/her priest to repeat it at the next mass when asking the congregation to vote republican. Here it is:

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

"O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."

Then ask the congregation to decide which party republicans under Bush or the Democratic party best represents these values.