{"id":27522,"date":"2011-07-28T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_catholic_bishops_urge_house_against_steep_budget_cuts\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T22:55:10","slug":"rns_catholic_bishops_urge_house_against_steep_budget_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27522","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Catholic Bishops Urge House Against Steep Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons,\u201d\u009d wrote Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., and Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., in a Tuesday (July 26) letter to House members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/catholic-bishops-urge-house-against-steep-budget-cuts-cms-18275\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s 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. \u201cA just framework for future budgets cannot rely on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27522\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,670,582,589,149,617,600,597,675,616,154,151,667,108,364,618,673,596,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate","category-social-security","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}