There are practicing Catholics, Catholics in name only....and some, unfortunately, ignorant Catholics.
I am impressed with Ryan’s understanding of authentic Catholic social teaching. My guess is that he’s familiar with the New Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching...as well as Pope Benedict’s thoughts on the dangers of state control of “charity.” Here is another article that highlights that:
Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget by Thomas Berg
(from the Witherspoon Institute)
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/05/5388
An excerpt:
“The hard truth is that the implosion of the nuclear family has coincided precisely with the ramping up of federal low-income assistance programs since the 1960s. Why? Certainly the breakdown of the family is a complex social phenomenon, with many causes. But there’s little doubt that large-scale federal assistance to low-income households with single parents and dependent children has contributed to the destruction.”
Any conscious thoughtful human Christian with more than two brain cells, can independently conclude that any "charity" which is coerced, ceases to be "Charity."
Unlike "Sister" Simone Campbell*, the attorney, lately spouting her radical "Social justice" marxism on the O'Reilly Factor...
Personally, I don't see any difference between her and the babblings of another fruitcake, Cindy Sheehan.