It’s Not 2004 Anymore: The Stale Catholic Debate Over Voting Ignores New Threats, by Peter Wolfgang 

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Oct 26, 2024

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own

In 2020, Ross Douthat wrote “The Decadent Society.” It is a book in which, as Vox described it, “Douthat’s definition of a ‘decadent society’ is that we’re trapped in a stale system that keeps spinning in place, reproducing the same arguments and frustrations over and over again.”

Could there be any better description of how we think about Catholics and voting in the United States? It has been the same thing forever. Or at least since the 1980s.

That was the decade in which New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in 1984, made his infamous “personally opposed, but…” speech about abortion at Notre Dame University. It was the Magna Carta of pro-abortion Catholic politicians. We have been living in the shadow of that speech ever since. …

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