Using Obama’s campaign rhetoric, Bishop Stephen Blaire wrote to Congress declaring that Ryan’s budget “fails to meet [the Church’s] moral criteria”

A bishop’s unjust attack on Paul Ryan

Marc A. Thiessen

“The preferential option for the poor,” Ryan says, should not mean “a preferential option for big government.” After the recent federal assault on religious liberty, the bishops should appreciate the destructive power of big government. They should also appreciate the fact that the chairman of the committee crafting the Republican Party’s budget is a man of faith who is working to address the problems of poverty and our nation’s debt, so we can ensure we are not living, in Pope Benedict’s words, in “untruth” and “at the expense of future generations.”


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