In an interview with Crux, Cardinal Wilton Gregory states:

No political party and certainly no individual candidate that I’ve experienced embraces, the full range of Catholic social, moral teaching. We just don’t have that. And I don’t know if we’ve ever had that. The issues that we face are unique to our times. Obviously, the reverence, the respect of human life is a dominant concern, and it has to provide the umbrella, covering a whole range of concerns, beginning with the life of a child waiting to be born, but also embracing the life of those people who may be looking to end their lives for what they believe would be a legitimate cause.

That umbrella of respect for human life has to cover those who are fleeing their nation because of fear, political, economic or violence, and they’re coming to the shores of our nation looking for the same gifts and potential that immigrants have always sought. A better life for themselves, a future for their children. It involves the rights of those who are imprisoned. The use of capital punishment really is no longer justified. We can remove people who are violent and should be removed from public, the public venue.

The issue of poverty. How is it that so many families find it necessary to have both parents employed so that they can provide a reasonable and secure home environment for their children? The fact that young people seem to be subject to so many emotional social pressures that just were not so prevalent a generation or two ago, young people who face the serious issue of feeling helpless, suffering from depression. We, at least in my life, tended to think that youth and adolescence and young adulthood were filled with possibilities and joys. There were always individuals who had particular issues, but now more and more, our young people, they’re dealing with depression, and all of those issues that I’ve just named, and many others, have to be a part of our concern for the dignity of human life.