The Morality of the Paul Ryan [GOP] Budget
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pushed back at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops's criticism of the GOP's budget plan, saying the bishops need to take a bigger look. The bishops had...
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A bishop’s unjust attack on Paul RyanPresident Obama attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget as nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism. That is not surprising. What is surprising is that the chairman of...
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Georgetown faculty criticize Ryan on eve of lectureOn the eve of a scheduled lecture by Rep. Paul Ryan at Georgetown University, nearly 90 faculty members have written the Wisconsin congressman a...
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Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, has been excoriated by some Roman Catholic leaders ever since he claimed this month that his budget plan, which...
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In April, Bishop Blaire [Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice, Peace and Human Development] issued a letter that called the GOP’s...
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Ryan said he draws inspiration from his Catholic faith.He argues that Catholic priority for caring for the poor should focus on helping folks move out of poverty: "Don't make people dependent on...
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Posted by Doug Pearson on Saturday, May 5, 2012 7:34 AM (EST):Bishop Blair, how much harm would it do to the “poor” in this country if we end up like Greece?Bishop Blair, why do you think that raising...
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Ryan has drawn much overdue attention to the fact that in many areas of social policy, the Church must rethink the most adequate applications of Catholic social teaching in frank and honest dialogue...
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I believe that fiscal liberals [notably the USCCB] promote misguided compassion if not false compassion since as we all know in many cases the road to hell is paved by good intentions.By simply...
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Catholics worried about the erosion of the social safety net should therefore understand that there is a vast difference between reforming the safety net and destroying it. It is in that light that...
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Some Catholics seem to mistake the preferential option for the poor for a preferential option for Big Government. When you look at the results of that approach—one out of every six Americans in...
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Andrew Klavan's Economic Smackdown: Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama
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Ryan is a likable fellow, and a devoted Catholic, but if the leadership of the USCCB has to choose between Ryan on the one side and 120 years of explicit papal social teaching on the other, that is...
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is in not position to be calling Ryan's budget proposals immoral, given that this coterie of socialists and liberation theologists have traditionally...
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Hooray for the sisters! TheySubmitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Aug. 14, 2012.Hooray for the sisters!They are following Gospel of Jesus and are on the same page as the bishops on this.As the...
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Progressive Catholics, of whom Sister Simone is now the most prominent representative, are so convinced that Paul Ryan has betrayed Catholic teaching with his budget proposals that the charge of...
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Obama’s liberal-agenda Catholic supporters have tried to paint Ryan as somehow outside the Church’s teachings because of his budget work trying to control the ballooning federal deficit. Here too,...
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By a 171-26 vote at their meeting on June 13, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a proposal by Bishop Stephen Blaire, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic...
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