Nearly 60 prominent theologians, priests, nuns and national Catholic social justice leaders released a statement today refuting Rep. Paul Ryan’s claim that his GOP budget proposal reflects Catholic teaching on care for the poor, which he made in an interview earlier this week with the Christian Broadcasting Network. The group of Catholic leaders — including a former high-ranking U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops official, a priest in Rep. Ryan’s district and the leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas — called on Ryan to “reconsider his radical budget proposal and refrain from distorting Church teaching.”Let me answer my own question:
“If Rep. Ryan thinks a budget that takes food and healthcare away from millions of vulnerable people upholds Catholic values, then he also probably believes Jesus was a Tea Partier who lectured the poor to stop being so lazy and work harder,” said John Gehring, Catholic Outreach Coordinator at Faith in Public Life. “This budget turns centuries of Catholic social teaching on its head. These Catholic leaders and many Catholics in the pews are tired of faith being misused to bless an immoral agenda.”
The leaders wrote: “Simply put, this budget is morally indefensible and betrays Catholic principles of solidarity, just taxation and a commitment to the common good. A budget that turns its back on the hungry, the elderly and the sick while giving more tax breaks to the wealthiest few can’t be justified in Christian terms.”
No, you won't hear word one from them.
Because this "War on Religion" has never actually been about religion. It's been about conservative Catholics shamelessly using their religion to lash out against the Obama Administration in the name of partisan politics.
In the words of Jon Stewart...
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No, you won't hear word one from them.
Correct. You'll hear word plenty from them:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/13/the-catholic-controversy-about-the-paul-ryan-budget/
A post = "plenty." Well, then,...you got me, Robert.
Tax breaks for the rich while social services and other benefits are cut or eliminated can have a WWJD kind of feel to it, I suppose, if you're a conservative Catholic in an election year with a milquetoast presidential nominee who reinvents himself every week...and you write for a blog called "Hot Air."
The confessional booths must have lines that stretch for blocks these days.
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Yep, and hopefully most of them are the Pelosi-types who are pro-abortion. Those type of Catholics are apparently OK, simply because they proclaim to "help the poor" via their BS social programs that don't do anything except keep people perpetually poor and in need of assistance. Where are the signed statements against Pelosi's backing of abortion? And those people aren't playing politics? Please!
You can disagree with Ryan's budget (a budget...something Obama should try to accomplish one of these days), but these people are ridiculously out of touch with their own religion's teachings.
Subsidiarity: look it up.
Robert...really, I get it. I hear you saying that it's okay for Republicans to make sure that the wealthy, or as you call them, the job creators, get more money at the expense of the poor and underprivileged. Kind of a tough love kind of thing...well, at least for the poor and underprivileged. The wealthy deserve all the breaks and bennies that God and Republican Party supported by conservative Catholics can give them through Ryan's budget. The poor, not so much.
I get it. And I simply don't agree with it.
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"You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge." Psalm 14:6
"The scoundrel's methods are wicked, he makes up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just." Isaiah 32:7
Civics 101: Per the Constitution, Congress writes the budget. The White House can offer suggestions, but passing it and implementing it is done in the legislative branch, not the executive. So far, this Congress couldn't pass a kidney stone much less a budget.
@The Lord & The Holy Ghost: Frodo gave his finger for you.
"If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth." 1 John 3:17-18
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