Sessions to discuss decisions on voting

Tom Allio and Karen Leith of the Catholic Commission of Summit County will give a presentation on "Forming Christian Conscience for Voting." in two sessions at St. Paul this coming week. . The sessions will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Parish Activity Center.

Click on the headline to see a five-point summary article “Brief Reflections on the Role of Catholics in an Election Year”

There are many resources available to help voters on election decision-making. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a website on Faithful Citizens containing essays on these topics:

Church Urges Humane, Comprehensive Solution to Immigration Issue
Voting by Conscience
The Election and the Environment
Poverty and the 2008 Elections
Moral Questions Regarding Iraq in an Election Year
A Decade Later: Time for a Dose of Reality on Stem Cells
Gay Marriage – Locating the Question
Abortion and Faithful Citizenship
Bringing Facts and Principles to the Health Care Debate
The American Workplace: Economic Policy, Moral Dimensions
Peacemaking and Catholic social teaching

Click here to visit the Faitthful Citizenship site,

Other websites are the Diocesan Social Action Office, www.catholic-action.org, the Catholic Conference of Ohio, www.ohiocathconf.org, the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, www.usccb.org.