A group of Catholic sisters will roll into Wisconsin on Tuesday as part of a nine-state bus tour protesting U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed budget and highlighting the work of Catholic social service agencies they say will be harmed by it.more at FaithWatch
The “Nuns on the Bus” tour, organized by the Catholic lobbying group NETWORK[do we fund this group through the CCHC?], will drop off an alternative "faithful budget" at Ryan’s Janesville office around 2 p.m. before heading to Milwaukee. [... I still think it's weird that people actually read this blog]
Here, the sisters will break bread with the homeless and poor at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, 1015 N. 9th St., and, on Wednesday, tour the Seton Dental Clinic at 1730 S. 13th St.
"The budget that the House passed wants to cut both medical services and food programs drastically," NETWORK Executive Director Sister Simone Campbell said by telephone from the bus Monday.
"The sound bite is that churches can take care of that. But the fact is we're running as hard as we can ... and these programs will be totally swamped by it," she said.
I think it's fair to say the alternative will likely be the status quo dressed up to dance. The status quo is why we need an alternative. The question I keep asking myself is; did I pay for that bus?
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7 comments:
I thought they wanted to be called sisters, not nuns.
They only want to be called nuns when they are looking for sympathy.
A bunch of dissidents trying to justify the wrong things they do & teach using the poor.
Ran into this with the Sinsinawa Dominicans when I wrote a letter to the TH about Sr. Donna. They spent an hour on the phone trying to excuse her abortion escort actions with all the good they did for homeless women.
use their own points against them, call them out for the 'carbon footprint' of a bus, accuse them of supporting big oil, show up where they are with signs like "nuns on a bus, brought to you by BP" it is the only way...
Doesn't "Nuns" indicate a cloistered bus?
Apparently "nuns" is the expedient form of liberal gals.
Al: Thank you for challenging them! Even dioceses follow the same pattern. Nobody is to blame it would seem, we are all just a victim of circumstance.
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