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Rev. Sirico: Church Changes How it Deals with Organized Labor
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Rev. Sirico: Church Changes How it Deals with Organized Labor

by John Couretas • February 25, 2011

Rev. Robert A. Sirico is interviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond, a reporter for National Catholic Register, in today’s paper:

Father Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, a free-market think tank, suggested that the bishops’ response to the union protests marked a new era of episcopal leadership and a more nuanced understanding of economic realities in the United States.

He noted that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had sought to reorient an overly politicized approach to social justice concerns and that new Catholic leaders had responded to this new direction. “Politics is not the governing hermeneutic of the Church,” said Father Sirico, “but for many years politics was the whole paradigm through which everything was seen.”

But he also suggested the Wisconsin bishops’ stance implicitly acknowledged “the changing reality of the American Catholic population as a whole. “The only sector of union membership that is growing is public unions,” he said. “That is highly problematic from a Catholic point of view, because these public unions publicly favor abortion rights and ‘gay marriage’ and seek to undercut the Church’s agenda on social questions.”

Full article here.

John Couretas

John Couretas

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

Posted in Bible and Theology, News and EventsTagged benedict xvi, Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, catholic church, catholic social teaching, Jerome Edward Listecki, labor unions, National Catholic Register, politics, pope john paul ii, Robert A. Sirico, Robert C. Morlino, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Scott Walker, Social Issues, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Wisconsin

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