#ThrowbackThursday – Paul Ryan’s updated “Despicable Me”

Shortly after Rep. Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate in 2012, I shared a compilation over at Blogging Blue of some of the really really stupid things Paul Ryan has said and done throughout his career as a politician. In keeping with the theme of…

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Why I think Paul Ryan is a terrible Catholic

Says Pope Benedict XVI on the right of all to have access to health care: “The care of man, his transcendent dignity and his inalienable rights” are issues that should concern Christians, the pope said. Because an individual’s health is a “precious asset” to society as well as to himself,…

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An Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy…

No, not Walkergate.  Something much more insidious and evil.  The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Roman Catholic Church and their political enablers. Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua ordered aides to shred a 1994 memo that identified 35 Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests suspected of sexually abusing children, according to a new court filing….

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Ketapanen -or- Cultural Hegemony in the Wolf River Valley

Huh?  What?  Is that a word?  Yeah, it is…  But we’ll get to that in a little bit.  First, I want to introduce you to a bit of American history you may not know.  Most people don’t. Racism is insidious and can lie dormant in our social relations as long…

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Separation of Church and Scott…

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently came out in “solidarity and support” of Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, who recently wrote: “The Church is well aware that difficult economic times call for hard choices and financial responsibility to further the common good,” the archbishop said. “But hard times…

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Suffer the children

In related news, on Tuesday Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki defended Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of the clergy sex abuse scandal, absolving him of any blame in decisions involving Father Lawrence Murphy, the Wisconsin priest accused of molesting as many as 200 deaf boys over decades beginning in the 1950s. “The…

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The church still defends its action – or inaction – in dealing with pedophile priests

As a Catholic, it pains me to know the Church of Rome didn’t do more to protect victims of sexual abuse at the hands of its priests, and the fact that the Vatican is still defending its decision not to defrock a Wisconsin priest accused of sexually assaulting as many…

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