Catholic Nuns Send Letter To Romney Challenging His ‘Woeful Lack Of Knowledge’ About The Poor

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By Travis Waldron on Aug 10, 2012 at 1:15 pm

The group of Catholic nuns who launched the Nuns On A Bus tour to shed light on the effects the House Republican budget would have on the poor turned its attention to the GOP’s presidential candidate this week, challenging Mitt Romney to join them for a day to learn about the plight of the poor. NETWORK, a Catholic social justice organization, issued the call on Wednesday and was joined yesterday by the Franciscan Action Network, an organization of friars and sisters.

The nuns have now sent a letter to the Romney campaign, asking the candidate to join them during his current swing through Ohio. The letter again challenges Romney’s misleading television ads about welfare reform, which the nuns say “demonize the families we serve and reflect a woeful lack of knowledge about the challenges faced by tens of millions of Americans”:

We are deeply troubled by your campaign’s recent advertisements and statements about welfare, which we believe demonize the families we serve and reflect a woeful lack of knowledge about the challenges faced by tens of millions of Americans. By accepting our invitation, we hope that you will have the opportunity to see firsthand the struggles of those in need and have the compassion to desist your campaign’s harsh attacks.

We are all God’s children and equal in God’s eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our country’s politics. Please accept our invitation to witness and to serve.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/10/672391/catholic-nuns-send-letter-to-romney-challenging-his-woeful-lack-of-knowledge-about-the-poor/?mobile=nc

[meow2u3]

1. The nuns are being very charitable to Rmoney

It's not that Robme doesn't know about the poor--it's that he just doesn't give a rat's behind.

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2. They're charitable to a fault.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. No, Romney does not know anything about the poor

Like almost every other multi-millionaire, he has no idea of what living in poverty means. The nuns would like to teach him.

Of course, like most of the leadership of the Republican Party, he does not give a damn about the poor. But if he were to learn, he just might.

But he won't bother trying to learn. Nor will he stop his party's lying attacks on the poor, just like he won't stop lying about Obama.

Augustine of Hippo wrote a book, Contra Mendacium -- "Against Lying". In it, he considers the question, "Is it morally permissible to lie in furtherance of a good cause?" He says "no," for two reasons: First, lying is itself a sin, and as Paul says, "Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?" (Romans 6:1-3) Second, when the person who is lied to discovers the lie, he will doubt the goodness of the cause itself. Does Romney and his merrie men really believe that they serve their cause well when they lie?

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4. Thanks. I will forever associate mendacious with Romney.