1. Robert Alan Sirico was born on June 23,1951 and is an American Catholic priest and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
33 Facts About Robert Sirico
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Robert Sirico is the retired pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Grand Rapids.
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Robert Sirico received an associate's degree from Los Angeles City College, studied at St Mary's University College, London, and received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Southern California.
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Robert Sirico's move West happened during what he called "The Great Environmental Awakening of the 1960s and 70s".
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Robert Sirico received an MDiv from The Catholic University of America in 1987 and was ordained a Paulist priest in 1989.
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Robert Sirico was assigned to the Catholic Information Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and soon thereafter founded the Acton Institute.
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Robert Sirico was ordained a Pentecostal minister and established a healing ministry in Seattle around 1970.
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Robert Sirico became very popular and gained the support of several charismatic churches in the area.
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Robert Sirico eventually made a public announcement that he was gay himself and intended to form a church for gays.
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In 1972, Robert Sirico founded Seattle's Metropolitan Community Church, which primarily ministered to gays.
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In October 1973, Robert Sirico was arrested in Seattle for "walking in the roadway" after crossing the street to come to the aid of a gay man he saw was being arrested.
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In jail, Robert Sirico was reportedly singing "We Shall Overcome" until he was bailed out by a parishioner.
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The citation was later struck down at trial and Robert Sirico was let off with a warning by the judge.
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In July 1973, Robert Sirico went to lead the newly founded Metropolitan Church of Cincinnati.
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Robert Sirico was a proponent of gay marriage and performed same-sex marriages as a Protestant minister.
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In 1975, Robert Sirico performed the first gay marriage in the history of Colorado at the First Unitarian Church in Denver.
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Robert Sirico left Seattle for Los Angeles, where he became the director of the Los Angeles Gay Community Center.
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In 2010, Robert Sirico addressed his activities in a written response to questions posed to him by a National Catholic Reporter writer.
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Robert Sirico spent a year studying literature at St Mary's University in Twickenham, London before returning to California in 1980.
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Robert Sirico earned his Masters of Divinity from The Catholic University of America in 1987.
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Robert Sirico recalled that both he and Novak moved from a form of democratic socialism to staunch free-market advocacy.
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Robert Sirico claimed the evenings at the Novak household contributed significantly to his eventual worldview.
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In 1990, in response to what he saw as an insufficient understanding of economics by religious leaders and the religious isolation of business leaders, Robert Sirico founded the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids.
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In 2012, Robert Sirico published Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy.
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Father Robert Sirico argues that a stable, limited government plays an essential role in allowing human enterprise to flourish by aiding in the enforcement of just laws and the protection of its citizens' basic rights, including the right to private property.
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Robert Sirico instituted a classical curriculum and boosted the amount of regular prayer while weaning the school off all government support.
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The reforms have driven a fourfold increase in enrollment in as many years, a small but solid victory for the mixture of faith and unencumbered industry Father Robert Sirico preaches at Acton.
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In November 2009, Robert Sirico signed the "Manhattan Declaration," an ecumenical statement issued by Christian leaders in defense of the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.
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In 2012, Robert Sirico posted a blog essay that outlined his views on unionization after the Michigan legislature passed a right-to-work law in the state.
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In May 2018, Robert Sirico addressed education issues in the United States in a Detroit News opinion piece.
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In 1990, Robert Sirico was inducted into the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Robert Sirico served on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1994 to 1998.
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Robert Sirico serves on the board of advisers for Instituto Fe y Libertad, in Guatemala the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and the Civic Institute in Prague.