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Catholic Democrats Endorses Elizabeth Warren for United States Senate

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Catholic Democrats endorsed Elizabeth Warren yesterday. Please see the press release below.

Catholic Democrats Enthusiastically Endorses Elizabeth Warren for United States Senate

Warren’s Worldview and Policies Best Reflect the Rich Catholic Social Justice Tradition

Boston, Mass. – Catholic Democrats is enthusiastically endorsing Elizabeth Warren to represent the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States Senate. Catholic Democrats is a national organization, with more than 20,000 supporters nationwide, whose mission is to advance the rich Catholic Social Justice Tradition in the public square and in the Democratic Party.

“Catholic Democrats strongly endorses Elizabeth Warren on both moral and pragmatic grounds,” said Steve Krueger, president of Catholic Democrats. “This election is about two worldviews of the role of government in addressing structural inequalities that infringe on human and societal needs and in creating opportunity – and jobs – for Americans in working class families and those living in poverty.  In his Papal encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI said that the political path to charity is no less excellent and effective a path than the kind of charity we see from neighbor to neighbor.  Like few other candidates, Elizabeth Warren has articulated a vision of a role of government that serves the common good. She advocates for a political path that will help address the moral issue of the ‘scandal of glaring inequalities’ that the Pope wrote of so movingly at the height of the economic crisis. We see this in her groundbreaking work that leveled the playing field for consumers with Wall Street and in advocating for a balanced approach to address our national deficit.”

Prior to running for the US Senate, Warren worked with the Obama Administration to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to strengthen consumer rights and to prevent consumers from becoming ensnarled in complicated credit card and mortgage agreements.

“We strongly support Elizabeth Warren,” said James Roosevelt, Jr., a member of the Catholic Democrats board. “Her record of championing the rights of the powerless is fully in keeping with the Catholic teaching and tradition.”

Elizabeth Warren’s approach to addressing the national budget deficit can be sharply contrasted to that of her opponent, Scott Brown, who has signed Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge.  That pledge commits Scott Brown to address the federal budget deficit by only cutting expenditures and not asking the wealthiest in our society to return to Clinton-era tax rates during which the economy experienced record growth.

Warren supports the Affordable Care Act and is opposed to efforts to repeal this landmark piece of health care legislation, whose passage represented the culmination of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s life work.  She is also in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, which has been supported by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).  She will work to make it easier for workers to organize, which is the issue on which the Catholic Social Justice Tradition was founded.  Finally, she supports a number of proposals – like investing in education, creating quality housing, and establishing more job training programs – that will help alleviate poverty and strengthen communities.

“In the race to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate, Elizabeth Warren is the candidate whose views best reflects Catholic views on inequality and fairness, the role of government, and creating a strong economy and communities,” said Krueger.  “It is gratifying to share our endorsement of her with the people of Massachusetts.”

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  1. That famous union hymn and question is framing this election. A choice between Scott Brown, a politician committed to eroding the working class in favor of extending even more special benefits to special interests, and Elizabeth Warren a proud fighter of the banks, special interests, and corporate dollars eroding our democracy and our politics. She is a strong supporter of organized labor, while Brown is a foe. She endorses Obamacare and Brown voted for Ryancare. Now that we know where the candidates stand where does the Church?

    It supports the values of subsidiarity and mutualism as expressed in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, which clearly condemns our current financial system and supports Warren’s reforms

    it has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition…to this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few

    As for healthcare the Church in the latter encylical Mater Et Magistra supports

    …the development of social insurance and, in the more economically advanced communities, the introduction of social security systems.</blockquote.

    Organized Labor:

    Men in labor unions are showing a more responsible awareness of the major social and economic problems.

    Progressive Education and Class Equality

    There is a progressive improvement in basic education, a wider distribution of essential commodities, greater opportunities for advancement in industry and the consequent breaking down of class barriers, and a keener interest in world affairs shown by people of average education.

    On the greatest encyclical of the 19th century and one of the most important of the 20th Warren stands with the Church, Brown, along with the Catholic Paul Ryan, stands against it, in favor of the nihilistic unfettered market which the Church repeatedly calls unfair, speculative and immoral.

    On War and Peace and life issues Warren favors an immediate end to the war in Afghanistan and a peaceful solution to the Iranian disarmament crisis. Brown does not. On life issues Warren has come out against Question 2 while Brown remains silent, Warren favors reproductive freedom while supporting far more generous and comprehensive policies that reduce abortions than Brown does, and Warren is against the death penalty which Brown favors. On every issue important to the social justice and welfare of our society, issues the Church and people of all faith and no faith agree, Warren stands on the side of justice and Brown does not. A no brainer, lets make Warren Senator-elect come Tuesday!

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