Dear Editor: In answer to Siobhan’s question (Siobhan O’Connor, Catholic Teachings, Readers’ Forum, Dec. 1): There are no politicians, right now, who fit this mandate. The sticking points seem to be abortion and poverty.

Abortion, I believe, is a confluence of toxic masculinity being expressed and women reclaiming their own bodies. Therefore abortion will never end through legislation. It will only end when women are convinced of the truth that the child is indeed a gift from God to the world and not just a product of violence. It will end when people value human life over money.

Poverty in America is a conscious decision to value money, success, and economic progress over human life.

A theologian once wrote that “we are called to follow Jesus who was poor, and serve Christ who is in the poor.”

The only way to end poverty, and in turn, demonstrate to women that society, in general, values human life above all is to institute the Church teaching of “preferential option for the poor.”

STEPHEN TRANI

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