Paul Ryan officially accepts US Vice Presidential nomination

The US Congressman from Wisconsin, Paul Ryan, took centre stage yesterday evening at the Republican National Convention, accepting his party's nomination to be Mitt Romney's running mate in the campaign to defeat incumbent President Barack Obama. His nomination means both parties will have Catholics running as Vice President, a first in history. The themes that dominated Ryan's acceptance speech were responsibility for economic recovery and US leadership abroad.

“It was a good night for the Republicans. It was a good night for Paul Ryan,” said Kathryn Jean Lopez, the editor of the National Review Online.

She told Vatican Radio his speech was a good official introduction for the nominee.

“He really represented last night, in both tone and substance, a real generational change…he represented a different kind of ‘hope and change’,” she said.

Listen to the interview by Charles Collins with Kathryn Jean Lopez: