Leader of Nuns on the Bus calls GOP budget immoral

Sister Simone Campbell, who led the summertime Nuns on the Bus tour for social justice, called the GOP budget plan “immoral” in a spirited speech at the Democratic National Convention.

“Paul Ryan claims this budget reflects the principles of our shared faith,” Campbell said, as she took direct aim at Mitt Romney’s running mate, who has often cited his Catholic faith as the underpinning of his fiscal policies. “But the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops stated that the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test, because it would harm families living in poverty,” she said on September 5.

Ryan has argued that his budget plan is informed by Catholic social teaching and that reducing the federal deficit through budget cuts would help the poor and all Americans by allowing the economy to grow.