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* * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * *   A few months before a federal election, Catholic publishers, media figures, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops put out reminders and sometimes books and PDFs on the theme of Catholics and voting. The problem is their advice tends to be very weak, and very vague, spectacularly nonspecific…afraid to describe things as they really are...afraid to quote what the candidates have publicly said they will do if elected...and afraid to quote from the websites of the political party's platform.   The question is, what are they afraid of?   Watch this episode here