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Catholics Called to Witness is a conservative, non-profit political advocacy group based in the United States. While the organization acknowledges the authority of the Magisterium, it is independent of the Catholic Church. It has stated a goal of "electing new pro-life and pro-family candidates to Congress and, of course, electing a pro-life candidate to the Presidency in 2012."

Structure
The Catholics Called to Witness board consists of:

Manuel D. Gonzalez, M.D. Manuel "Manny" Gonzalez is a practicing physician in Florida who has volunteered from his time to help in mission trips.

Adriana Gonzalez Adriana has been married to Manny for over twenty years. Together they spent the last fifteen years home schooling their seven children, two of whom are now in college. Adriana has worked the last few years defending parental rights and serves as the ParentalRights.org Florida State Coordinator. Manny and his wife Adriana are active members of their parish. They have seven children, five at home and two in college.

Juan Bauta, J.D. Juan is a Board Certified trial lawyer. He is a Bible study leader, Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist and a Sacristan. He has been a guest in Radio Peace and speaks in parishes on religious liberty.

Simon Miranda, Ph.D. Simon is a retired clinical psychologist. Simon has also served as an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist and has co-led Charismatic prayer groups, cell groups, and Life in the Spirit Seminar groups.

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CatholicVote.org, a project of Fidelis, a conservative Catholic organization.

Domain name
The CatholicVote.org domain name was first used by the Catholic Alliance in early 2000. The Catholic Alliance was a grassroots group of Americans who agreed with the platform of the fundamental evangelical Protestant Christian Coalition but wished to widen the Coalition's scope to include Catholics. The Catholic Alliance, formed in 1995, held the website until mid-2002. The next owner of the domain name was Larry Cirignano, founder of Catholic Vote, later called Catholic Citizenship. He used the domain for six years until mid-2008. The Fidelis Center began operating the domain in October 2008, initially redirecting it to CatholicVote.com. The first published articles linked on the site included ones by co-founders Brian Burch and Joshua Mercer.

Fidelis
CatholicVote.org is run under the umbrella of the Fidelis Center, a conservative Catholic non-profit group. "Imagine Spot 1" was the first release of the national media campaign "Life: Imagine the Potential" in 2009. In ten days it recorded over 700,000 hits. The commercial centers around the story of President Barack Obama, showing an ultrasound image and saying that despite a hard childhood, the unborn child will grow up to be President of the United States. The advert was rejected by both NBC for airing during the Super Bowl and CNN for airing during coverage of President Obama's first State of the Union Address.

The second commercial was also released in 2009, "Imagine Spot 2". This commercial featured Nelson Mandela. It was aired in selected markets during the American Idol season 8 finale.

In 2010 CatholicVote.org organized a petition urging the United States Postal Service to move forward with issuing a Mother Teresa commemorative stamp despite opposition by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and similar groups. The petition gained over 146,000 signatures.