nothing to do with abortion, birth control or gay marriage. this is about the budget, specifically the one created by republican congressman paul ryan that passed the house. today ryan who is catholic spoke at the georgetown university. the reception he received was a bit chilly. ryan claims his faith guided his budget cuts, but nearly 90 of the school s faculty members and priests sent him a letter ahead of the appearance telling ryan he better go back and read his bible. they wrote, quote, we roob remiss if we did not chal cheng your continuing misuse of catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food plans for struggling families and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few. here is just one aspect of the congressman s budget that they disagree with. it would cut funding for food stamps by about $133 billion over the course of ten years. ryan took the stage today as planned. i suppose there are some catholics who for a long time thought they had a monopo
from cutting saturday service at least for two years. the house is expected to vote on its own plan as well. shocking details of alleged sex abuse being revealed at the trial of two catholic priests. reverend james brennan is accused of attempting to rape a 14-year-old child and his boss, monseigneur william lynn agency aled helped cover it up. lynn is accused of shuffling predator priests from parish to parish. both have pleaded not guilty. an indiana woman is taking the catholic church to court claiming she was fired as a catholic school teacher for having in vitro fertilization treatment. church officials deny that emily was a victim of discrimination. they say the church has a right as a religious employer to make decisions that are consistent with the catholic faith. the church opposes in vitro treatment because the embryos are often destroyed. the teacher appeared on cnn this morning. one day i got an e-mail saying that i needed to meet with the monseigneur at st.
scheme. they re accused of taking money to allow drug couriers to pass through a los angeles international airport. they received as much as $2,400 for looking the other way as suitcases of cocaine and other drugs passed through the x-ray machines. thousands of postal workers around the country breathing a sigh of relief after the senate passed a plan to save the u.s. postal service as well as their jobs. the measure could keep 100 mail processing plants from being shut down or consolidated. also prevents the postal service from cutting saturday service at least for two years. the house is expected to vote on its own plan as well. shocking details of alleged sex abuse being revealed at the trial of two catholic priests. reverend james brennan is accused of attempting to rape a 14-year-old child and his boss, monseigneur william lynn agency aled helped cover it up. lynn is accused of shuffling predator priests from parish to parish. both have pleaded not guilty. an india
aspirational, not specifically in the works. as for the home grown extremists, those already right here in the united states, the intelligence estimates say this date, this anniversary so to speak may hold some value to them, but they don t think it is enough to make them accelerate their plots. in other words, if they got some plat and they re on a timetable, they re not going to scrap their timetable just to make this deadline. okay. chris lawrence in the piers morgan. appreciate it. . once it has absolutely nothing to do with abortion, birth control or gay marriage. this is about the budget, specifically the one created by republican congressman paul ryan that passed the house. today ryan who is catholic spoke at the georgetown university. the reception he received was a bit chilly. ryan claims his faith guided his budget cuts, but nearly 90 of the school s faculty members and priests sent him a letter ahead of the appearance telling ryan he better go back and read his
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.