Originally published at National Catholic Register
The advertisement coincides with the Trump campaign’s recent push to rally Catholic support for his candidacy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Catholic voters to support former president Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential ticket in a new campaign advertisement launched this week.
“Catholics may disagree on many issues, but we must find a way to love our children more than we hate each other,” Kennedy says in the advertisement sponsored by CatholicVote.
“I hope you’ll join me in supporting Donald Trump,” says the former independent candidate for president who suspended his independent presidential campaign in August and endorsed Trump.
Kennedy — the son of the late Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of the late Democratic President John F. Kennedy — has campaigned with Trump over the last two months and serves on the transition team, which would help staff the administration if the former president wins.
“My Catholicism provided the foundation for a lifetime of striving to perfect my personal relationship with God,” Kennedy says in the advertisement. “Two features of Catholicism are the notions of original sin and the concept of a forgiving God. Our job is to try to perfect ourselves through conscious contact
