Service, integrity, and a focus on the common good – one bishop’s prescription to improve the health of US politics

US politics have for too long been deeply divided along the lines of race and ethnicity; money plays too great a role and politicians ought to be aware of their call to serve the common good. So said San Francisco auxiliary bishop Robert McElroy in an address at Georgetown University. He also argued that the current structure of US political parties bisects the common good, the Republican Party better reflecting the commitment to protect unborn life, reject euthanasia and promote religious liberty and the Democratic Party witnessing more effectively to Catholic teaching on the issues of poverty and inequality, immigration reform, restorative justice and the environment. Read the full address below:  Catholic teaching views the vocation of politics as a vital element in building up