nhboy
08-17-2012, 09:42 AM
Link to original article. (http://www.prayforpaulschangeofheart.org/)
"Paul Ryan is a sincere Catholic and a brother in Christ, and we ask him to reconnect with the compassion for the poor and vulnerable that is rooted in our consciences and articulated by the Catholic Church.
The US Catholic bishops wrote a series of letters (http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/federal-budget/) about the House budget proposed by Rep. Ryan, saying that his cuts "will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment. These cuts are unjustified and wrong."
The bishops offered Congress these three moral criteria for the federal budget:
1. Every budget decision should be assessed by whether it protects or threatens human life and dignity.
2. A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.
3. Government and other institutions have a shared responsibility to promote the common good of all, especially ordinary workers and families who struggle to live in dignity in difficult economic times.
They wrote that "the House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria."
"Paul Ryan is a sincere Catholic and a brother in Christ, and we ask him to reconnect with the compassion for the poor and vulnerable that is rooted in our consciences and articulated by the Catholic Church.
The US Catholic bishops wrote a series of letters (http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/federal-budget/) about the House budget proposed by Rep. Ryan, saying that his cuts "will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment. These cuts are unjustified and wrong."
The bishops offered Congress these three moral criteria for the federal budget:
1. Every budget decision should be assessed by whether it protects or threatens human life and dignity.
2. A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.
3. Government and other institutions have a shared responsibility to promote the common good of all, especially ordinary workers and families who struggle to live in dignity in difficult economic times.
They wrote that "the House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria."