Those who find this presidential election’s two major-party candidates dissatisfactory can now count the pope among their number. “Both are against life,” Pope Francis said of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris earlier this month. Without naming either candidate or suggesting a preference, he advised American Catholics to vote for the “lesser evil.” It’s a familiar formulation, though striking coming from the man in charge of the institution against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.
On Wednesday night, a group of Catholic Democrats assembled to make the case for Harris as the lesser evil — though they did not, and would not, put it that way. These “Catholics for Harris” are only one of the many Zoom-facilitated, identity-based groups the Harris-Walz campaign has rallied to its banner. Harris-opposing Catholics such as myself might be interested in how our co-religionists are attempting to sell her as the “Catholic” candidate — and in the many problems with their pitch.
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