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Robert Alan Sirico is an American Catholic priest and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Robert Sirico
American Roman Catholic priest
Robert Alan Sirico (born June 23, 1951) is an American Catholic priest and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He is a political, religious, and cultural commentator. He is also the retired pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Grand Rapids.[1][2]
Early life and education
Sirico was raised in an Italian Catholic family in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, (in both Bensonhurst and East Flatbush)[3] but by his early teenage years, he had left the Church.
Rev.He 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. Sirico holds dual Italian and American citizenship.
His older brother was actor Tony Sirico.
Writing in the Acton Institute's 2018 Winter edition of its Religion & Liberty