text: Regarding: "Priests telling laypeople how to vote is frowned upon by both the bishops and the pope."
  - It is one thing for a group, made up primarily of lay people of a parish, to meet to discuss ethics and social justice in light of upcoming elections or legislation before various governing bodies.
  - It is another for a cleric to pointedly, or obliquely substitute the homily on the liturgical readings, with heavy handed innuendo, and imputations on how 'catholics', that is the ones in the pew, ought to behave in the voting booth.
  - Any rule or law that keeps clerics from confusing pastoring and evangelization with their own opinion of political drifts and tides is a rule that must be kept.  The humour is of course that clerics who make this mistake might actually think that this will put them on a terna.