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In his new book, Tea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing (The Crossroad Publishing Co., 2013), Samuel Gregg, director of research for the Acton Institute, draws on Catholic social teaching and the thought of Charles Carroll of colonial Maryland – the only Catholic Signer of America's Declaration of Independence – to make a powerful case for the enduring value of economic freedom and the role it plays in sustaining America's unique experiment in political and religious liberty....

Tea Party Catholic, with a publication date of Oct. 4, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Link: http://www.amazon.com/Tea-Party-Catholic-Government-Flourishing/dp/0824549813?tag=acton04-20

To read an excerpt, see www.teapartycatholic.com

Sounds fascinating. Even though I live in formerly-Catholic Maryland, I had forgotten about Charles Carroll. I’ll check this out. Thanks for posting.

**Charles Carroll of colonial Maryland – the only Catholic Signer of America's Declaration of Independence **

A Tea Party Thomist: Charles Carroll How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
America’s Catholic Colony [Ecumenical]
The Catholic Church in the United States of America [Ecumenical]
Catholic Founding Fathers - The Carroll Family [Ecumenical]
Charles Carroll, founding father and "an exemplar of Catholic and republican virtue" [Ecumenical]

Thank you for posting. Sounds like Father Sirico. From Amazon.com:

The Left has seized on our economic troubles as an excuse to “blame the rich guy” and paint a picture of capitalism and the free market as selfish, greedy, and cruel.
Exactly the opposite is true, says Father Robert A. Sirico in his thought–provoking new book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy. Father Sirico argues that a free economy actually promotes charity, selflessness, and kindness. And in Defending the Free Market, he shows why free-market capitalism is not only the best way to ensure individual success and national prosperity but is also the surest route to a moral and socially–just society. In Defending the Free Market, Father Sirico shows:
* Why we can’t have freedom without a free economy
* Why the best way to help the poor is to a start a business
* Why charity works—but welfare doesn't
* How Father Sirico himself converted from being a leftist colleague of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden to recognizing the merits of a free economy.

But this:

This First Amendment right – not simply to worship privately but to express one's faith in the fullness of civic life – is a principle integral not only to the American Founding but also to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

No. Absolutely not. There is NO such thing as a right to error. The erring person can be tolerated and has rights (see the parable of the wheat and the tares), but a society that invents and protects a universal right to believe error is a society of the devil.

Are we not, in this day and age, aware of what "to express one's faith in the fullness of civic life" means in an Islamic context?? Do we not see this fundamental flaw that is built into our understanding of religious pluralism?

I'll want to read this book, but I suspect it may well be riddled with muddle-headed post-Vatican II theology.