text: Catholic teaching encompasses far more than either party's manifesto or aims. If one can take as an objective view of both parties as possible, there are ideas and policies that are in contradiction to the Gospel in both. Likewise, as Margari points to, there are ideas and policies that are in line with the Gospel in both. To say "the aims of one political party are closer to Catholic teaching than that of another party" reveals the problem. To choose one party over the other is to choose only some of the Gospel and allow the points of agreement with the other party to languish.