Catholic Social Teaching lays the foundation for how Catholics live their Gospel mission in today’s political, economic and cultural setting. It lays out a vision of a just society in which all people are respected and have their basic needs met – food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education…

Questions about candidates’ stances on the Common Good helps us put into practice Pope John Paul II’s admonition that “Democracy serves what is true and right when it safeguards the dignity of every human person, when it respects inviolable and inalienable human rights, when it makes the common good the end and criterion regulating all public and social life.”