This Fourth of July celebrates the closing of two public Catholic events promoting the church’s mission: Nuns on the Bus and the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom. It’s all too easy to cast these two in opposition to each other as if they each expressed a different Catholicism.
However, it would be more accurate to see them as they are: complimentary sides of the same equation. Think: Ying and Yang, salt and pepper, good cop-bad cop. The nuns do not disagree with the bishops that we must defend religious liberty and the bishops join the nuns in opposing the Paul Ryan budget passed by the Republican-dominated House of Representatives. What makes them different is the priority each places on their objective.
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