By Tom Quiner

Catholics will decide this election.

Quiner’s Diner has made the case that “the Catholic vote could tip the election” in a previous post.

The selection of Congressman Paul Ryan was the equivalent of injecting orthodox Catholics with high potency steroids. In Paul Ryan, we have a man who embraces his Church’s non-negotiable positions on Life and Marriage. Even more, he embraces his Church’s positions on key social justice issues. He simply approaches them differently than liberals want.

Paul Ryan doesn’t want to get rid of our social safety net as his detractors claim. He wants to save it. Mr. Ryan says what Democrats refuse to acknowledge, that the emperor has no clothes. Our current fiscal path is unsustainable.

Our entitlement programs are going to break the bank on their present course.

Interest payments are consuming bigger and bigger chunks of our budget.

We can’t tax ourselves out…

My soul shall be sated as with choice food, with joyous lips my mouth shall praise you! — Psalm 63:5

Beer is a biblical beverage. In fact there are three beers mentioned by name in the Old Testament:

We need to know He hears us. And, when whispered pleas for mercy seem to go unanswered, we wonder if we should even keep praying.  How do we know if the answer is “no” or “not yet.”  It’s all very confusing until we pick up His Word and let Him speak.

Before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah… – Genesis 24:45 HCSB

It’s hard for us to fathom…that He has answered our prayer before we have even finished praying it.  Time is so different for Him.  He is not overwhelmed by the ticking of the clock.

He feels no panic at the passing of years.

The nature of our request or need doesn’t matter.  In Him, it has already been answered.  Maybe the answer is “yes”…maybe not.  But, we don’t need to feel ignored.  The silence, instead, is an indication that there is nothing that needs…