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"Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures." - Pope Francis |
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Catholics Votes Common Good Makes its Mark at the Democratic National Convention |
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Key Presentation to Delegates
Pennsylvania Congresswomen Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeleine Dean, Miguel Diaz Ambassador to the Holy See (Ret), and Sister Reg McKillip, OP, joined Catholics Vote Common Good National Steering Committee members Caroline McGraw and Chris Carroll, as well as National Co-Chairs Denise Murphy McGraw and Patrick Carolan for an important presentation to Democratic National Convention delegates and Catholic leaders and the importance of the Catholic vote in the 2024 election.
Beginning on Thursday at 3 pm ET, the program will be streamed on the Vote Common Good YouTube channel. Click below to watch.
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Busy Information Booth at "Dem Palooza" Exhibition Hall |
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Hundreds of delegates have visited the Catholics Vote Common Good information booth during the four-day convention. They are learning about all the ways to become involved in our organization reaching out to Catholic voters in battleground states. |
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Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago Offered Invocation on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago & Speaks of the Common Good |
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We praise you, O God of all creation. Quicken in us a resolve to protect your handiwork. You are the source of every blessing that graces our lives and our nation.
We pray that you help us to truly understand and answer the sacred call of citizenship. We are a nation composed of every people and culture, united not by ties of blood, but by the profound aspirations of life, freedom, justice, and unbound hope. These aspirations are why our forebears saw America as a beacon of hope. And, with your steady guidance, Lord, may we remain so today.
In every generation, we are called to renew these aspirations, to re-weave the fabric of America. We do so when we live out the virtues that dwell in our hearts, but also when we confront our failures to root out ongoing injustices in our national life, especially those created by moral blindness and fear of the other.
We pray for peace, especially for people suffering the senselessness of war. But as we pray, we must also act, for building up the common good takes work. It takes love.
And so we pray: May our nation become more fully a builder of peace in our wounded world with the courage to imagine and pursue a loving future together. And may we as individual Americans become more fully the instruments of God’s peace.
Guide us, Lord, in taking up our responsibility to forge this new chapter of our nation’s history. Let it be rooted in the recognition that for us, as for every generation, unity triumphing over division is what advances human dignity and liberty.
Let it be propelled by the women and men elected to serve in public life, who know that service is the mark of true leadership.
And let this new chapter of our nation’s history be filled with overwhelming hope, a hope that refuses to narrow our national vision, but rather, as Pope Francis has said, “to dream dreams and see visions” of what by your grace our world can become.
We ask all of this, trusting in your ever provident care for us. AMEN |
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Joe Biden’s True Legacy will Uplift Generations of Americans |
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John Kenneth White's latest offering in The Hill takes a look at President Biden's legacy. |
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We hope you have a blessed week,
Denise Murphy McGraw National Co-Chair |
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Catholics Vote Common Good’s goal is to activate multi-issue Catholic voters and provide them - as well as candidates who are committed to the common good of lifting up the quality of life of all Americans - with the tools they need to be informed and to engage Catholic voters addressing issues of social justice, immigration, climate change, and the scourge of White Christian Nationalism.
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