Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner - Don't want to be him next Sunday

[rdean]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

 

[Cal]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

There is nothing about the Republican plan for America that is Christian. They're all about being the corporate brothers keeper.. The poor - not so much.

 

[rdean]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

There is nothing about the Republican plan for America that is Christian. They're all about being the corporate brothers keeper.. The poor - not so much.

They don't believe that. Maybe because when they think "poor", they think black and brown", so it's OK if you don't help them.

 

[Avatar4321]

Catholic Academics? Since when do the Academics and not the Priesthood lead the Catholic Church?

Perhaps, instead of criticizing the Speaker for doing his job and cutting the budget, these Academics should start doing their Christian duty and actually provide service and raise money for these people they supposedly care about instead of complaining when other people can't afford to and burden the tax payers.

When are people of faith going to wake up to their individual responsibilities and stop trying to get other people to do them instead?

 

[Mad Scientist]

President Obamas' budget is a joke and everyone knows it:
Obama unveils $3.73 trillion budget for 2012 - Politics - White House - msnbc.com

"After two years of failed stimulus programs and Democrats in Washington competing to outspend each other, we just can't afford to do all the things the administration wants," McConnell said.Even some Democrats complained that Obama needed a more vigorous attack on future budget deficits.
"We need a much more robust package of deficit and debt reduction over the medium- and long-term. It is not enough to focus primarily on cutting the non-security discretionary part of the budget," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who called for a budget presentation matching the ambition of Obama's deficit commission.

But Obama won't do it because he even ignored his own deficit reduction committee! What an idiot!

 

[Zona]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

Those damn socialist Catholics.

(This has been a rought couple of weeks for the republicans...lol)

 

[Avatar4321]

(This has been a rought couple of weeks for the republicans...lol)

No. Not really.

 

[bodecea]

Wasn't it Notre Dame that didn't want Obama speaking there?

 

[midcan5]

Republican policies have always been about the rich, when your fundamental ideological position is a corporate trickle down social Darwinism, you are justified in your mind for all that follows from immoral actions that often hurt children the most. Bravo for this letter.

"A letter from more than 80 Catholic academics to John Boehner could lead to a healthy political dialogue, but the question now is how, or if, the Speaker of House will respond to the criticism that his politics hurt the poor.

The letter came on occasion of Boehner’s commencement address at Catholic University of America, where he will also receive an honorary degree this weekend. “Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress,” it reads. “This fundamental concern should have great urgency for Catholic policy makers. Yet, even now, you work in opposition to it.”" What will come from letter to Boehner on poverty policies? | USCatholic.org

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/us/12catholic.html

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter


"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara

 

[sinister59]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

why7 catholicism is nothing but a corporation ,

 

[rdean]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

why7 catholicism is nothing but a corporation ,

Not to the members of that faith.

 

[Marie888]

What all this about Republicans and the "rich"? I'll say my piece....Not ALL Repulicans are about the "rich"; that kind of thinking comes from drinking the liberal media Kool-Aid. I know because I used to drink the Kool Aid too. Easy to do when most everyone else we know is drinking it.

Four of the most conservative and wisest men I know are NOT rich at all; they would be considered below middle class to very poor - two of them don't even have health coverage. They are for liberty and justice and the US Constitution and they DO NOT like this Administrations policies one bit. They would agree that we shouldn't steal from the rich to help the poor - we need to continue to have LIBERTY for the rich to help the poor. Two wrongs don't make a right.

As for the Catholics Academics judgement of the policies of Boehner, I'll just quote these verses:

Matthew 23:25
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Besides that, how do they know what Boehner personally does or doesn't do in regard to the poor? He could be helping thousands for all they know! Do you know what it says in God's Word about helping the poor? Here it is - what Jesus said:

Matthew 6
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Alms is giving to the poor. Look around; how many people do you see bragging on what they "do" for others? Why? For vain glory, thats why.

In my recent years of learning more about different faiths, (or lack thereof) it baffles my mind of how many atheists have come out faith because of their background in the Roman Catholic Church doctrines. Somehow they were hurt, or judged unfairly, or not forgiven, or tossed out, or made to feel like less than a person and others were "better" than them (which no one is "better" than another) and not encouraged to seek our Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost to help them. Is it any wonder so many of them turned atheist? Again, read the verses above.

Please note, in my writing this, please I do not intend to knock a person personally who is in the RCC, at all with what I just wrote, including Boehner. Please, do not take offense personally. It's been my personal observation that the RCC doctrine doesn't point first and foremost to Jesus Christ our Lord, Who, HE, alone is the One who changes our hearts. All we gotta do is go to the Vatican website and see. (link below) Where is what Jesus Christ said on that front page? Where is the rest of the Word of God? It's in there, but you're hard pressed to find it, as its all caught up in some very difficult reading which appears to exalt the "church", not GOD. He alone is the Lord, the Head of the Church, only HE can ultimately change us or the rich to want to help the poor. I've never learned so much about charity, than from our Lord Jesus Christ.


The Holy See <-- Try finding God's Word and what our Lord Jesus Christ said in here for us to know Him. Will take you a little bit.

 

[Dr.Drock]

I thought christianity looked up to charity and not inefficient, forced to pay government programs?

 

[Avatar4321]

I thought christianity looked up to charity and not inefficient, forced to pay government programs?

I did too. To me, there is a huge difference between charity and robbery. And that's in the willingness factor to it. God wants people to willingly do good. That's why He has given us freedom. So we can freely choose to do good instead of letting others do it or being forced to do it.

The use of force was always the Adversaries plan. Not God's.

 

[rdean]

I can't imagine living in the "Wild West", every man for himself, Chaos rules type of country that right wingers advocate. No wonder they hate science and education. They truly want to be savages.

 

[Mad Scientist]

"Republicans are for the Rich" implies that "Democrats are for the Poor". Nothing could be further from the truth. The "War on Poverty" that they support has had no positive effect, in fact more people are on some sort of welfare than ever before and what's the Democrat answer to all that?

More Welfare.

 

[sinister59]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

ya arguing with bull shit dogma is frustrating .
you give fact they come back with well the bible says , as a rebuttal they think makes sense

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Catholic Academics Challenge Boehner | National Catholic Reporter

Breaking News.
UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.
A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

From the letter:

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.

It is particularly cruel to pregnant women and children, gutting Maternal and Child Health grants and slashing $500 million from the highly successful Women Infants and Children nutrition program. When they graduate from WIC at age 5, these children will face a 20% cut in food stamps. The House budget radically cuts Medicaid and effectively ends Medicare. It invokes the deficit to justify visiting such hardship upon the vulnerable, while it carves out $3 trillion in new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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Wow, wow, and wow. What must it feel like to be chastised by the leaders of the church you belong to. And not just some, but many. And the things they wrote. Makes Republicans look like Satan.

I thought you said that religious nuts are all mindless drones that never think for themselves. How does that gibe with your concern about Catholics challenging Boehner?