Last week in Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Ryan attempted to make the case to the American people that a Romney-Ryan administration would effectively implement policies to combat the nation’s alarming poverty rates. To his credit, Ryan spoke eloquently about “upward mobility,” and “true compassion” for the poor, and he even mentioned society’s “fundamental obligation to the… Read More Ryan’s Case For Fighting Poverty
Did you notice anything missing from the national conventions these past two weeks? It seems that among all the major speeches a major tenant of Catholic social teaching was noticeably missing: being good stewards of God’s earth. In fact, the effects of global climate change have hardly been mentioned at all during this nearly year-and-a-half race for the… Read More Catholics to Obama and Romney: Heed Pope Benedict’s Call, Address Climate Change
Last night, when Sister Simone Campbell, the Executive Director of the Roman Catholic Social Justice Organization NETWORK and one of the “nuns on the bus,” addressed the delegates and the American people at the Democratic National Convention, she outlined the sharp contrast that exists between the proposals outlined by Mitt Romney and his running mate… Read More Nun on the Bus: “We Are Better Than That”
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