Two debates down, two to go in this election season. And what have the candidates discussed so far? The War on Iraq, health-care reform, education, foreign policy, the budget, terrorism — all important issues, but where were the critical ones, the issues that matter most?

Five Issues Should Matter Most to Catholics in the Coming Election!

Do you want your children to grow up in a country that continues to murder 4,000 babies a day?

Do you want America to become a country that cannibalizes human embryos, even creating them by the thousands through cloning, so corporations can get rich on a harvest of death while ignoring the fact that stem cells can be obtained from other sources?

Do you want your country to be a nation where marriage and the family — the bedrock of human civilization — is redefined out of existence in order to justify homosexual sin?

Do you want a country where you have to explain to your children why their teenage friend down the street took his own life at a “Medicide Clinic” or why a paralyzed cousin was starved to death?

As Catholics, we are at a watershed moment in history. We can no longer separate our moral convictions from our politics!

Priorities and Consequences

How will we stand before our Lord and say that the minimum wage was more important than the murder of innocent unborn children?

Or that income tax policy was more critical than protecting the family from destruction?

Or that health care costs took precedence over the preservation of life, despite its fragility?

We have a momentous task before us — a grave responsibility. If we elect leaders who do not defend the most fundamental moral issues of our time, our society will pay a steep price for decades to come. And when we stand before God, He will remember.

An October Surprise

Some politicians and most major news organizations will have you believe that the war in Iraq is the issue of the November elections. For Catholic and other Christian voters, though, war is not the issue that matters most.

Catholic Outreach has an “October Surprise” for Catholic politicians, media spin doctors, and entertainers who continue to misrepresent the real issues. It's called The Five Issues That Matter Most, a 96-page book that delivers a knock-out blow to the superficial arguments made by many ill-formed Catholics.

Written by some of the leading commentators in the Church today — Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Fr. Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International, Mark Brumley of Ignatius Press, Kim Marshall of Generation Life, Fr. Tad Pacholczyk of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and Matthew Pinto of Ascension Press — The Five Issues That Matter Most employs a user-friendly Q&A format to make the case for the five key moral issues currently facing our culture.

It answers the questions we should be asking:

• Why should life issues determine who we vote for?

• Have past civilizations permitted same-sex marriage, and if so, what was the result?

• What changes can we expect in society if human cloning becomes legal?

• Isn't the question of when life begins more of a religious than a civic question?

• Why should one's religious beliefs impact his or her voting decisions?

• Could America somehow emerge stronger and more unified by legalizing same-sex marriage?

• What gives me the right to tell a woman that she should not have an abortion?

• Is it morally permissible for a candidate to support abortion only in cases where the mother's life is in danger?

• Isn't it compassionate to allow people to end their pain and suffering through assisted suicide?

• What are stem cells and why are they so important?

• Which sources of stem cells are always morally objectionable to use?

• What is the difference between “voluntary” and “involuntary” euthanasia?

• What does support for euthanasia and assisted suicide tell us about a political candidate?

• Shouldn't homosexuals have the right to be happy?

We Must Get This Book into the Hands of Catholics Voters!

Catholics are a major voting block in our nation — 64 million strong. Yet, surveys show that many Catholics are more concerned about their tax rates than they are with the most fundamental moral issues facing our society. These issues flow directly from the natural law written in our hearts and proclaimed in the teachings of the Catholic Church!

This new book will help wake up and educate Catholics about the real issues that should inform their voting this election. But there is little time left! Please help us get this book into the hands of as many as possible!

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