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With questions of Romney’s Mormonism on the back burner, the religious focus of the campaign will likely shift to a debate about Catholic values. The church has sparred with both parties this election year. Catholic bishops supported a lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s requirement that employees of Catholic hospitals and universities receive birth control coverage. But they also attacked the House Republican budget, written by Ryan, for proposing cuts to programs that aid the poor and elderly.
ReplyDeleteStephen Schneck, director of Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Research, explains the choice between two very different Catholic VP options (Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden, is Catholic too): Biden’s Catholicism “is the Catholicism of our ethnic neighborhoods and union halls and St. Christopher medals on the dashboard. Congressman Ryan’s Catholicism seems different,” he says. “It’s about obedience to the bishops, about pro-life politics, and reflects the professional class of Catholics who made it out of the old neighborhood and into the suburbs.”
No matter which vision wins out, America will inaugurate a Catholic Vice President in January for only the second time in its history. Romney hopes that milestone will mark the inauguration of the first Mormon President as well.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/13/what-the-ryan-pick-means-for-religion-and-the-romney-campaign/#ixzz23WdKObVT