via the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life:

As the United States approaches the presidential election in November, what are the responsibilities of faithful citizens and voters, especially young adults? Does our faith compel us to vote for a particular candidate? What does it mean to have a “well-formed conscience”? What issues, policies, values, and principles should guide our engagement in political life? Held less than two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, this dialogue with four leaders explored our responsibilities as voters with values in the face of a deeply polarized political landscape that faces threats to U.S. democratic norms and institutions.

via Millennial guest writer Chris Crawford:

There’s not enough of a real, deep focus on Catholic Social Teaching among Catholic voters…I am especially thinking about the preferential option for the poor in Catholic social thought.

Each of us will have different ideas for how we can best serve the most vulnerable human beings in our society. We’ll all have different policy solutions. But if every Catholic committed to at least have that priority, if we could transform our hearts in that way…Republican Catholics would transform the Republican Party. The Democratic Catholics would transform the Democratic Party. Those of us not in either party could help to change the entire political landscape just by prioritizing the things that Jesus tells us to prioritize so clearly.