Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Paul Ryan defends poverty reform efforts to a Catholic nun


Paul Ryan defends poverty reform efforts to a Catholic nun



U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in May 2016. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan fielded a question from a Catholic nun about health care and poverty during a national television event last night, insisting that his political goals of reforming federal anti-poverty programs are not in conflict with his Catholic faith.
“I know that you’re Catholic, as am I, and it seems to me that most of the Republicans in the Congress are not willing to stand with the poor and working class as evidenced in the recent debates about health care and the anticipated tax reform,” Sister Erica Jordan, O.P., said to Mr. Ryan during a live CNN town hall. “So I’d like to ask you how you see yourself upholding the church’s social teaching that has the idea that God is always on the side of the poor and dispossessed, as should we be.”
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