Posted on 06/20/2012 8:29:35 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A group of Catholic sisters broke bread Tuesday with the poor and homeless at Milwaukee's St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, part of a nine-state bus tour drawing attention to proposed Republican budget cuts and the Catholic charities they say would be harmed by them.
"The current House budget is going to devastate people at the margins," said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Washington-based Network, the Catholic social justice lobby singled out in a recent Vatican rebuke of U.S. Catholic sisters.
"We believe we need reasonable revenues for responsible programs," she said.
The sisters are joining scores of faith leaders, includ ing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in criticizing the budget drafted by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) that would remake Medicare and Medicaid and slash domestic spending on programs that benefit the poor.
The "Nuns on the Bus" tour rolled into Wisconsin on Tuesday - a day after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared - stopping first at Ryan's Janesville office to drop off an alternative "faithful budget" proposal they say better reflects their Catholic values.
Ryan has defended the budget as in keeping with his Catholic faith.
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The criticism of the Ryan budget is a rare show of solidarity of late between the Catholic hierarchy and the sisters, who have been rebuked by the Vatican in recent months for promoting positions contrary to church teachings on such issues as homosexuality and the ordination of women.
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While some Catholic bishops have called Ryan a good friend and conscientious Catholic - New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Madison's Bishop Robert Morlino among them - the Bishops Conference has criticized the budget as immoral and unjust - a refrain repeated by the sisters.
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Thesewomen are silly naive unfortunate remnants of Vatican II. They are trying to feel important and “Oh so progressive.” They are actually embarrassing themselves.
Leeches getting angry that the host is dying!
Let me be more clear, I'm glad that the older sisters liberalism and disobedience is dying off.
“Sister Act II”, starring Whoopee Goldturd.
Private property rights have been an area of debate in the Catholic church for centuries, going back to the time of St Francis (13th century) and the other mendicant orders. He and his immediate followers followed a creed of poverty and said Christ and his apostles never owned anything. They could use things but not own them. For this reason, the Franciscans claimed to own nothing and all their possessions were really owned by the church which granted them mere use.
Of course, many people in that era didn't much like the idea of abolishment of private property in favor of essentially communism so it was a huge debate for a century. Even when the Pope finally issued a bull to quell it all, he only went so far as to say that Christ and the apostles could have owned property held "in common", he didn't claim Christ or the apostles personally owned property individually.
Now, what might be the position of the church and these nuns if the government decided to confiscate all church property and partition it for redistribution? It's happened before with the dissolution of the church carried out in Britain by Henry VIII and I beleive official church policy was that dissolution was bad. I imagine they would not like it if it were re-enacted in the USA. So why is it okay to insist that the property of others be confiscated in such a manner?
Sister, the poor are supposed to be the work of the Church, your work, in fact,
The real ones generally do. The lesbian leftist activists posing as nuns generally don't.
The 1960s and Vatican II were damaging.
You and I recognize that, unfortunately not everyone does.
Not long ago, on this forum, a Catholic poster took great umbrage to my recognition of Santorum as a socialist because the poster claimed that they and Santorum had found divine indulgence for socialism in the Scripture.
I really do wish the Vatican would take a closer look at what is happening in Wisconsin. We have a couple of “Catholic” groups here that have crossed far over the line into a socialist political organization and support nothing resembling traditional teachings.
Is child abuse from Catholic priests Catholic Values?? NUNs, STFU! PLEASE!!
What does that have to do with the conversation at hand?
This bunch sounds like the liberal group of rogue nuns that were shilling for Fluke when the libs went after Rush. IIRC, Mark Belling and Rush both talked about these “nuns”. They are totally off the reservation, so to speak.
Local news last night (channel 27?) did a story on them and I nearly puked. They presented them as normal nuns, doing good, when they are actually DNC operatives tearing down the Catholic Church.
Maybe they are not real nuns; only staged ones.
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