Of course, Paul Ryan's brand of Catholicism is more than a bit warped, and it earned him a condemnation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (usccb.org).

I was part of a team representing USCCB at a meeting with our local Congressman, Tom McClintock - one of the most conservative members of Congress. McClintock is Baptist, but he has a couple of right-wing Catholics on his staff (white men in suits, of course). These two Catholic guys harangued us about the righteousness of the Ryan budget, which they saw as a reflection of True Catholicism, despite the fact that the majority of U.S. Catholic bishops had voiced a strong disagreement with Ryan and his budget.

This is a new tack from right-wing American Catholic extremists, starting with the brochures produced in 2008 by anti-abortionist Randall Terry, that looked like they were published by the Catholic Church. Right-wing Catholic extremists now speak as if they are the only true voice of the Catholic Church. You'll see all sorts of brochures and videos and other publications that claim to speak for the Catholic Church, but most of these are frauds - and as a Catholic, Paul Ryan is a fraud. He does not speak for the Catholic Church.


-Joe-