Even Dolan has made clear that he and Ryan disagree about this. On his radio program, Dolan reported that the two had a heated conversation about Ryan’s belief that entitlement programs only coddle the poor. In his convention speech, Ryan introduced a new topic of disagreement—the question of whether health care is a right or a privilege. Referring to the Obama health care plan as “an entitlement we didn’t even ask for,” Ryan firmly placed himself in the “privilege” camp. The Catholic church, however, has long considered guaranteed health care a universal right. As recently as 2010, Pope Benedict XVI wrote that it was one of the “inalienable rights” of man....
....It is not unreasonable to ask if Catholic bishops are playing favorites if they are content to sit back and let the GOP vice presidential nominee proudly call himself a Catholic and attempt to square his positions with church teaching while taking stands that are at odds with that teaching. Yes, the USCCB has written letters to Congress criticizing the Ryan budget. But Ryan has wrongly characterized those letters as representing the views of just a few bishops instead of the entire conference without being publicly corrected by church officials. And the vast majority of Catholics do not read the letters bishops send to Congress in any case.
I’ll take what Ms. Sullivan says seriously when she questions the Catholicity of a politician when she acknowledges that abortion, contraception and same-sex “marriage” are abominations.
Otherwise Jesus would have told Pontius Pilate take care of the poor.
Don't remember that happening in my Bible.
Wow. Some stupid Catholic leaders have problems with insufficient “social welfare” spending on the part of the ‘Pubbies, but still haven’t excommunicated Pelosi and every “Catholic” Democrat in the DNC for their support of infanticide.
Go figure.
One of Saul Alinsky's main targets in Chicago was Catholics who were easily swayed by the class warfare message.
I would love to see Ryan's vision win over that of the Pope's and the US Bishops'. Interesting times.
Her problem is that she (either through denial of Church teaching or ignorance of Church teaching) considers social welfare to be more important that life and death.
It’s not, and never is.
Many Catholics are torn. The GOP statements on life are very good for them, but the worship of free market materialism is an issue.
The stated concern “for the poor” by the DNC matches what many Catholics perceive the social doctrine of the Church to be, but the DNC is very anti Catholic, and anti Christian in its morals.
We may see a Catholic third party once of these days as a result.
Is this satire?
It has been so rewarding to have lived during the lifetimes of the Kennedy brothers, dedicated public servants all; to have observed their clearly demonstrated respect for their wives, their children and their marriage vows; their shunning of the perquisites of great inherited material wealth; the manner in which their lives were influenced by the teachings of the religion they professed and the oversight of its prelates.
Recalling all this just renders me almost breathless. I can’t go on!! Shall I abandon my Lutheran mind set and return to the Mother Church? /mild sarc/
On the other hand, the Catholics better notice quick on which side their bread is buttered, and start abandoning the anti-faith Democrats even though they hope for subsidies and other graft--
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Cardinal Dolan has praised Paul Ryan’s plan. Move along. Nothing to see here.