Minnesota archbishop asks clerics not to vote
February 27, 2020
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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis is asking priests and deacons to “abstain from voting” in Minnesota’s presidential primary next week. The archbishop was responding to a new state law that requires voters to choose the ballot of one political party and record that choice. Being aligned with a political party, the archbishop said, “could be seen as ‘partisan’ political activity,” which clerics should avoid.
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