Catholics and Politcal Parties

After a long slumber, I am back with a short note in response to the posts by Rob, Mark, Michael, and Rick regarding Catholics and Political Parties, including the SGP. Even if the thought experiment succeeded and the SGP party was birthed, I suspect that within a matter of a few years it would adopt some position antithetical to Catholic teaching.

The way I see it, our roots are in a relationship - a relationship with the Living Word made flesh - and not in any particular idea-ology. Political parties, on the other hand, are formed, more or less, around sets of ideas, which may be more or less friendly to the Truths proclaimed by the Church. In short, isn't it the necessary lot of Catholics to live uneasily within the secular world of politics?

Michael S.