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Cash-Strapped [Catholic] Bishops Declare War On Trump Budget [Catholic Caucus]
The Wanderer ^ | June 4, 2017 | Christopher Manion

Posted on 06/05/2017 9:15:04 AM PDT by ebb tide

On May 19, five of the USCCB’s leading bishops sent a letter to every senator and representative, denouncing President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018 as “profoundly troubling.” Invoking “moral criteria” and the “common good,” the bishops insist that Congress abandon Trump’s cuts in federal welfare programs. In a bow to fiscal responsibility, they endorse cuts in defense spending instead.

Essentially, the bishops are calling on Congress to preserve the spending priorities that prevailed during the Obama administration. Apparently that includes Obama’s support for full funding of Planned Parenthood, which the letter does not mention. And curiously, while the bishops express a new-found affection for “diplomacy,” they don’t mention President Trump’s unprecedented move to protect unborn life by expanding the Mexico City Policy, which will reduce to zero the billions of taxpayer dollars that Obama has sent every year — through “diplomacy” — to fund abortion worldwide. No, as we shall see, for the bishops, “diplomacy” means money — money for the bishops, that is.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: francisbishops; francischurch; socialists; usccb
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To: ebb tide

These aholes have made vast fortunes importing islamic refugees. Screw ‘em.


21 posted on 06/05/2017 10:53:28 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: ebb tide

On May 19, five of the USCCB’s leading bishops sent a letter to every senator and representative, denouncing President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018 as **being proposed by a Republican.**

Fixed it


22 posted on 06/05/2017 10:54:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: ebb tide

every letter should be returned with a note, we do not report to the Catholic Church


23 posted on 06/05/2017 1:20:41 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Claud

.what about those Catholics who only know just VC II?


24 posted on 06/06/2017 4:08:53 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

I was one of those. I only ever knew the Novus Ordo. But after I saw what I was missing all these years, I never looked back.


25 posted on 06/06/2017 4:37:45 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

We need to be Christ’s hands in cleaning this stuff out of the Church.


sounds like a need for reformation. P needs reformation also.


26 posted on 06/06/2017 4:48:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Every Parish has a full kitchen, I know because I used to have regular Saturday nigh dinners, dinners for certain Hoildays, etc...
We raised our money that way, we also opened our kitchens during the summer when school was out to feed the children...


You do know it was govt regulations that stopped that don’t you? Kitchen needs to be inspected.


27 posted on 06/06/2017 4:50:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: steve8714; Claud

I second what Claud recommends, get thee to Latin Mass. If there is not one nearby look for a parish run by a younger priest often they are more conservative. Hang in there, you know, he who shall endure to the end...


28 posted on 06/06/2017 6:06:42 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: Claud

I did, oddly enough the hymns were Oregon Jesuit hymns translated into incorrect Latin.


29 posted on 06/06/2017 7:39:49 AM PDT by steve8714 (My wife calls me Dr. Smartacus. This makes me happy.)
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To: steve8714

LOL....that’s.....uh....unusual. ;)


30 posted on 06/06/2017 7:43:57 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

That’s what I thought.


31 posted on 06/06/2017 5:17:11 PM PDT by steve8714 (My wife calls me Dr. Smartacus. This makes me happy.)
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