Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor

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By Charlie Pierce

“May all members be mindful that the institutions and structures of our great nation guarantee the opportunities that have allowed some to achieve great success, while others continue to struggle,” he prayed. “May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans.”

“That is what I have tried to do for seven years,” Father Conroy said. “It doesn’t sound political to me.” “If you are hospital chaplain, you are going to pray about health,” he added. “If you are a chaplain of Congress, you are going to pray about what Congress is doing.”

In case that deft riposte didn’t clue you in, Fr. Conroy is a Jesuit. Ryan can’t seem to learn the fundamental lesson that you do not fck with The Society. When he was employed as a millstone on the 2012 Republican presidential ticket, Ryan got crossways with the Jesuits at Georgetown, to his hilarious disadvantage. Since then, he’s been running his Concerned Conservative Catholic rap on any sucker who’ll listen, although his primary Scriptural sources still seem to come from the First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen.

However, as this incident makes clear, and even though he has announced that he will blight our lives no more next year, Paul Ryan plans to “run through the tape” in his tireless search for ways to be a public jerk. Mr. Madison says, “I told you so.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20084129/paul-ryan-congress-chaplain-resign/

It's a short article worth the read. I hope my cut and paste was clear.

[3catwoman3]

1. Hey, Paulie - one question.

WWJD?

[MurrayDelph]

4. One problem:

Pault thinks the J stands for JohnGalt.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. It would involve more than a whip this time!

[a kennedy]

2. and there's your bullshit "compassionate conservative" crap.

[struggle4progress]

3. Let us heed the words of Saint Basil of Caesarea (330-379)

Someone who meets a man who is clothed and renders him naked is called a robber. What then should we call someone who fails to clothe the naked, while he is able to do so? The bread that you hoard belongs to the hungry; the coat, that you keep locked in your wardrobe, belongs to the naked; the footwear left in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver, that you keep safely hidden away, belongs to those in need. However many you could have provided for, but did not, that many you have wronged

[Drahthaardogs]

5. Uh, Paulie... You are going to be in real trouble

And the King will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me."

41 Then he will say to those on his left hand, "Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you never gave me food, I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, lacking clothes and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me."

44 Then it will be their turn to ask, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or lacking clothes, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?"

45 Then he will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me."

46 And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the upright to eternal life.'

[smirkymonkey]

7. I'm not religious, but if there is a god, I hope he calls brother Paul home soon.

His work on earth is done.

[dalton99a]

8. .