Read a letter from Georgetown faculty to Ryan telling him he’s misusing Catholic teachings in trying to explain the reasoning behind his budget proposal.

Read a statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops saying the federal budget must look out for the poor.

Read a statement from Network, a national Catholic social justice lobbying organization, calling for a budget that is a “stark contrast” to Ryan’s.

Read a March 26, 2012, opinion article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel saying Ryan’s budget “shuns social justice.”

Read an April 10, 2012, article from The Hill explaining why Ryan thought his budget was in line with his Catholic values.

Read an April 12, 2012, article from the Wall Street Journal detailing why Ryan’s budget wasn’t aligned with Catholic values.

Harvey Cox is the Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School and a renowned author and commentator on religious issues. He has written many books on the future of religion and theology, including The Future of Faith and The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective.

Stephen Pope is a professor of theology at Boston College and a frequent commentator on church affairs and the papacy. He is author of The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love and writes about different forms of love in Christian thought, Christian ethics, justice, and charity, and evolutionary theory.

Anthony Gill, professor of political science at the University of Washington in Seattle, researches church-state relations from a microeconomic perspective. He teaches a course on religion, politics and economics. His books include Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America. Gill conducts research on community efforts to restrict the property rights of […]