By Elise Ehrhard
The past four years have witnessed a battle between different generations of Catholics in public life—Generation X Catholics have taken a very different path from Baby Boomer Catholics and those born before the boomers.
Generation X Catholics have emerged prominently in the Republican
Party. Many who were mentioned this year on Mitt Romney’s
vice-presidential short list were Gen X Catholics—Paul Ryan, Bobby
Jindal, Kelly Ayotte and Marco Rubio. They were given prominent spots
at the Republican National Convention (Jindal could not attend because
of Hurricane Isaac). They continue to elicit excitement as the “future”
of the Republican Party and conservatism in general.
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1 comment:
I wonder if any "Catholics" will fill the shoes of the dead and dying Biden-Pelosi-Kennedy cabal?
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