Paul Ryan, the New Evangelism, and Economics

It should be clear that I am no fan of Ryan's budget cave, nor the '1/2 of 1/3rd' line used by Ryan and Boehner while funding ObozoCare, continuing enormous deficits, and growing the Statist enterprise by default..

But it is true that Ryan, in his situation, has the problem of herding cats, specifically the 230+ other (R) members of the House. 

Now it appears that Ryan is going to make his Catholicism a lot more apparent in his work.  This is good.

...Ryan echoed the sentiment in a commencement speech in May, putting the message in more distinctly Republican terms. “Concern for the poor doesn’t demand faith in big government,” Ryan told the graduates of Benedictine College. “It demands something more from all of us. If we continue to believe that the war on poverty is primarily a government responsibility, then we will continue to weaken our communities. We will drift further apart as people.”

Ryan, whose father died when he was 16, envisions the kind of civil society his family leaned on in the years after his passing — local networks of churches, charities, and concerned neighbors looking out for each other, with the state playing only a supporting role. It’s a vision he finds support for in Francis’s teachings. ...

That's the "subsidiarity" pull-quote from a lengthy essay--which is worth the read (link above.)

There's no question that the radical secularist Progressive project will try to attack Ryan's efforts.  It will be interesting to see exactly how they do so.  Can they attack 'demanding more' from us, if such 'more' is charity and/or personal volunteer effort?  Can they attack subsidiarity as a principle?

Heh.

Paul Ryan, evangelist.  Whodathunk?