The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are urging the GOP-led House to reject a cuts-only approach to the budget as Washington tries to avert an unprecedented government default on its multi-trillion-dollar debts.

“A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons,” wrote Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., and Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., in a Tuesday (July 26) letter to House members.

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1. Dan Crawford wrote: Too little, too late. Their embrace of the Republican social darwinists who claimed they were pro-life has been an embarrassment, and has led them to acknowledge somewhat belatedly that they have studiously ignored over 100 years of Catholic social teaching. July 29, 3:32 pm | [comment link]

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