Excerpt from Georgetown Letter to Rep. Paul Ryan
“Welcome to Georgetown University… However, we would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few. As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has wisely noted in several letters to Congress – ‘a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons.’
Catholic bishops recently wrote that ‘the House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria.’
Along with this letter, we have included a copy of the Vatican’s Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, commissioned by John Paul II, to help deepen your understanding of Catholic social teaching.”
When I was reading this part, the word surfaced in my head — “marvelous” praised by Mitt Romney, who, of course, cannot be expected to read the Vatican’s Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church and follow Catholic social teaching.
But then, I do expect some flip-flopping on the part of Romney if he finds some common ground between his Mormon teaching and Vatican’s Compendium and if more people agree with Georgetown Letter to Rep. Paul Ryan.
Kevin Sheely
1 year agoLet’s start with what we know for sure. The Ryan plan is far superior to the plan put forth by Senate Democrats. Their plan is to have no plan. They haven’t submitted a budget of any kind in over three years as they are required to by law. Ryan’s budget is also superior to the one put forth by your hero Barack. His budget (defeated 414-0 in the House) would have sent tax rates through the roof while maintaining trillions upon trillions in new deficits. He couldn’t even get a single vote. I guess Dennis Kucinich was out sick that day.
This country is headed toward a cliff. We are the brokest nation in the history of the world, in many respects worse than Greece and Spain. Paul Ryan’s plan, which would still allow for 5 trillion in new debt, merely gets us a slightly longer fuse on our debt bomb, and hopefully buys us enough time to get the economy going again and get some people back to work. Glad someone has guts enough to stick his neck out and come up with an actual plan.
Phil Cardarella
1 year agoThe Ryan Budget is NOT a plan. It is a budget based on no increase of revenues because no one in the GOP is willing to bite the bullet and tax the wealthy at the same rate as those commi-pinkos Eisenhower and Reagan.
Fact is, were it not for its fetus fization, the Catholic Church would be busy attacking the GOP as morally bankrupt. Accurately.
By the way: If life begins at conception,does that mean that identical twins have only one soul between them? Nuns did not cover that.
Kent Mueller
1 year agoYanwen, should I don’t think I will hold my breath until your write a rant criticizing Nancy Pelosi for not being Catholic enough. Pelosi actually said abortion has been debated in the Catholic Church for 2,000 years. Not!!!
Phil, why would you say the Ryan budget does not increase revenue? It does. It may not increase marginal rates, but you are wrong, it increases revenue.
And Phil, are you serious with your last question?
George Hunsucker
Northland
1 year agoOK phil, please let us know when you make your voluntary donation to the Treasury to help our beloved “leader” reduce the growth of our national debt.
If more tax payments are soooooooooooooooo good, show us your “leadership” by making a voluntary donation phil, don’t just talk about it, DO IT!!!
Brian Mundell
1 year agoNow georgetown is the voice of the Catholic church, that’s very nice. Notice as I have pointed out before, the zero sum tactics of the left. Did georgetown come out against the o care prevision regarding contraception? Seems to me some people are trying to have it both ways. Maybe someone should send a letter to georgetown about some of the “questionable” morals of its student body as discussed before congress.
Question for you yanwen: Where did Ryan say his budget was based on Catholic teaching? If he didn’t and you did not mention this (must have missed it), it would seem your post is as misguided and judgmental as the georgetown letter.