At a “Catholics for Kamala” event on Wednesday, attendees listened to a panel of speakers discuss abortion and other thorny issues for members of the world’s largest faith. (Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News)
The Democratic Convention has come and gone, concluding a week of councils, caucuses, protests and pageantry.
Throughout the convention Democrats made a concerted effort to reclaim patriotic fervor from Republicans — and in America patriotism requires a sign-off from religion.
The party and allied groups hosted a number of events catering to different faiths over the course of the week, hoping to show that the Harris-Walz ticket was the right one for the faithful.
“From the American ‘E Pluribus Unum’ to the Catholic notion of inclusivity… to the notion of community as a — and here I’m going to turn to the Spanish — a ‘nosotros’ … which means literally a community of ‘we others,’ a necessary otherness, difference, in order to preserve that community, I think that is what constitutes the richness of our faith,” said Miguel Diaz, a religious scholar and formerly the Obama administration’s ambassador to the Vatican, at a Catholic voter outreach program on Wednesday.