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Republicans were quick to cozy up with Catholic bishops in opposition to the Obama Administration's requirement that contraception be covered at no cost under health insurance plans. These days the GOP has its own prickly Catholic problem.

Catholic bishops have sized up the GOP budget proposal â€" praised by presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney  â€" and found it morally bankrupt. In a series of stinging letters to the House of Representatives, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned the budget for slashing anti-hunger programs and asking the most vulnerable to bear a disproportionate burden while the richest Americans are given more tax breaks. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a conservative wunderkind and architect of the budget, has claimed these proposals are inspired by the values of his Catholic faith. Bishops and other Catholic leaders are not letting him get away with that fiction.

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