Despite the "nuancing" and "criticisms" taking place regarding Bishop Sheridan's Pastoral Letter, we must understand that it cannot be morally justifiable to vote for or support a pro-abortion candidate (or any anti-life candidate*), because, first and foremost, it is against the natural law. Murder, the intentional killing of an innocent person, can never be morally justifiable.
Since a directly procured abortion brutally violates the natural law, it is rightly, the responsibility of the Church to make this known by appropriate catechesis. In no way can this effort at education be rationally viewed as an interference by the Church.
Abortion is intrinsically evil, and any Catholic, knowing of this, who votes for a pro-abortion candidate becomes complicit in this evil and cuts himself off from communion with the Church.
(* Anti-Life: Abortion, Euthanasia, fetal stem cell research, human cloning, homosexual "unions")
Having reiterated what many others have already stated, here is Bishop Sheridan's Follow-up letter addressing the reactions to his pastoral letter.
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