Ryan on poverty and civil society

At Catholic Voices, Kim Daniels has this post, about Rep. Paul Ryan's speech on "the importance of civil society in the fight against poverty."  Among other things, Daniels writes that "[w]hile admitting that Republicans don't always do a good job speaking to these issues, Ryan rejected as a straw man the idea that the GOP ticket believes 'everybody should just fend for themselves.'  Instead he laid out a vision rooted in Catholic ideas about the importance of community, civil society, and the need to strike a balance between government and private action."

With respect to the same speech, Matt Boudway has this, at Commonweal; Donald McClarey discusses it here, at The American Catholic; and the NYT's least interesting columnist, Charles Blow, has this.