A week after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan claimed his Catholic faith inspired the Republicans’ cost-cutting budget plan, the nation’s Catholic bishops reiterated their demand that the federal budget protect the poor, and said the GOP measure “fails to meet these moral criteria.”
via Catholic Bishops Say Ryan Budget Fails Moral Test.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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This is just one more example of both political parties attempting to use Christianity for their own ends. When will Christians on both sides of the political aisle wise up?
Allan is right. But, the Catholic Bishops could work harder to pick up the slack. They should be primarily be concerned with the people in their parishes first, society second.
Doug, that’s not exactly a Catholic view of the world.
…hahaha..this is hilarious…thanks to the antics of people like Jerry Falwell all the politicans need to be a christian now….