Fresh moves announced at this year’s Conservative Party conference to cut welfare payments have sparked further criticism by the Church of government policy. Csan – the Caritas Social Action Network, which is the social-action arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales – weighed in against Chancellor George Osborne’s plan to lower the maximum that can be claimed in benefits from £26,000-a-year to £23,000-a-year while attending its party conference (it was also present at Labour’s conference). This, Csan said, is likely to push more families into poverty. A similar, but more outspoken, criticism of the government welfare reforms was made earlier this year by Cardinal Vincent Nichols before receiving his red hat. It is not, h