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Welcome to Monday. Sisters work to ensure citizens are able to exercise their right
to vote. Catholic pacificists say Pope Francis' latest encyclical moves away from
just war theory. NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters says Amy Coney Barrett
already has her mind made up and it is reliably conservative.
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Sisters registering as many people as they can to vote [[link removed]]
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Having her volunteers register voters three days a week for the last two months
in Youngstown, Ohio - not to mention the training and preparation beforehand - has
been a lot of work, but Humility of Mary Sr. Ann McManamon said it's worth it.
McManamon is just one of many Catholic sisters across the United States who are
working to ensure citizens are able to exercise their right to vote. They work for
legislative changes to make voting easier, they register voters and they work the
polls on Election Day.
Sr. Marie Lucey, a Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia, is one of those working
to get out the vote. She's the associate director of Franciscan Action Network,
which made three videos this year to encourage people to vote.
"We don't have a good history of voting in this country," Lucey said. "We either
take too much for granted, or people think their vote doesn't count. But voting
is a right and a responsibility."
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More background:

* The Reflective Voting Guide [[link removed]],
produced by 11 congregational justice and peace promoters, sought to emphasize one
point above all: Discerning whom to vote for is not a one-issue matter.
* Amazon's documentary, "All In: The Fight for Democracy [[link removed]],"
explores the history - and current state of - voter suppression in the United States.
* #Every30Seconds is a national campaign [[link removed]]
that aims to engage Latino young adults and empower them to vote in the upcoming
elections.
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Catholic pacifists praise pope's move away from just war theory [[link removed]]
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Past and present leaders of Pax Christi International hope the Catholic Church will
formally set aside its long-held teachings on just war theory with the release of
Pope Francis' new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, in which the pope wrote it is "very
difficult" to invoke the theory today because of the brutality of modern combat.
In Fratelli Tutti, Francis says that nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and
new technological combat systems "have granted war an uncontrollable destructive
power over great numbers of innocent civilians."
"We can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always
be greater than its supposed benefits," he states. "In view of this, it is very
difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries
to speak of the possibility of a 'just war.'"
"I feel like what he was doing was moving the just war tradition further and further
into the background, to put it on the shelf, where it belongs," said Marie Dennis,
who served as a co-president of Pax Christi from 2007 to 2019. "It was progress
in a very real way."
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More background:

* All of NCR's coverage of Fratelli Tuttican be found here [[link removed]].
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More headlines

* Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will try to convince us that she is open-minded,
when the only reason her supporters are so excited is that they know her mind is
made up and it is reliably conservative, writes NCR political columnist Michael
Sean Winters [[link removed]].
* ICYMI: The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily allowing drugs [[link removed]]
used to medically induce abortions to be mailed or delivered without requiring the
recipient to make a doctor's visit during the coronavirus pandemic.
*
At Global Sisters Report [[link removed]],
Judith Best, a School Sister of Notre Dame, writes about a monument called "Kindred
Spirits" at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that reminds her of mutual compassion
after bitter hardships.
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Final thoughts

Join us at 1:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday for a Facebook Live conversation on coronavirus,
health care and the election [[link removed]].
Executive editor Heidi Schlumpf will speak with NCR political columnist Michael
Sean Winters and Ralph McCloud, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Follow us on Facebook [[link removed]]
for the latest news and events.
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Until Tuesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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