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Catholics and the Tea Party
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Catholics and the Tea Party

by John Couretas • October 13, 2010

A good give-and-take on the tea party movement on Our Sunday Visitor. Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, weighs in:

Many of the stances tea party activists have taken on political issues also would resonate with Catholic voters, Father Sirico said. For example, many practicing Catholics would likely agree with the tea party’s concern about the overreaching involvement of government in schools and health care, he said, and though the movement has hesitated to identify itself as pro-life, the majority of tea party activists appear to be in agreement with the Church’s stance on abortion.

But while he doesn’t feel that there is a conflict for Catholics to join the tea party, Father Sirico said, he does think tea party advocates could benefit from a greater understanding of Catholic teaching.

“The thing Catholics could teach the tea party is that not every social obligation needs to be viewed with suspicion,” he said. “We recognize that human nature is social as well as individual, and we balance these things out. To say I have an obligation to the poor is [to say] society has an obligation to the poor.”

Read “Is the tea party movement in sync with Catholic teaching?” on the website of Our Sunday Visitor.

John Couretas

John Couretas

is a writer and editor based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Posted in Bible and Theology, News and EventsTagged catholic church, catholic social teaching, Father Sirico, Our Sunday Visitor, politics, Robert A. Sirico, Roman Catholic Church in the United States, Social Issues, subsidiarity, TEA Party, Tea Party protests

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