Swedish Diocese Reduces Catholic Moral Teaching to “Practical Wisdom” and Democratic Compromise
The EWTN News portal reports that the “Justice and Peace Commission” of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm has published an electoral guidance document urging Catholics in Sweden to consider candidates’ positions on abortion and euthanasia in the September 13 general elections. The document, prepared by “Fr.” Thomas Idergard, SJ, distinguishes between what it calls “absolute values” (the right to life from conception to natural death) and matters of “practical wisdom” (economy, climate, crime, migration), the latter being open to “legitimate disagreement” among the faithful. The document frames political participation as a legitimate expression of Christian responsibility while employing “secular language and secular arguments for universality.” It cautions against equating any particular political stance with Catholicism itself, noting that “two equally good Catholics… may and can therefore arrive at entirely different party-political conclusions in all fields of practical wisdom.” This document represents yet another instance of the post-conciliar conciliar sect reducing the absolute moral law of God to the level of democratic negotiation and pluralistic relativism, while the “clergy” occupying the Vatican structures continue to lead souls toward perdition through deliberate ambiguity on matters of life and death.







