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Gingrich to Convert to Catholicism
Christianity Today ^
| 3/9/09
| Sarah Pullman
Posted on 03/09/2009 11:02:24 AM PDT by pissant
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To: sissyjane
Not necessarily... A valid marrigage can happen in ANY church.
To: Peelod
but if he sacrafices himself to Moloch, that would be a good thing.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:19:19 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Peelod
That’s fitting. Especially after today.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:19:24 AM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: pissant
He’s too old. Moloch demands children.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:20:40 AM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: BlueAngel
Laura is pro-abortion; she will enter the Church the same day as Gloria Steinem.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:21:51 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: Non-Sequitur
As a Catholic, if he wants to divorce this wife he may end up beheading her and grasping the Protestant sect.(remember Henry VIII)
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:22:04 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
To: Philo-Junius
And W will not join a Church that Laura couldn’t endorse as well.
So, not expecting W to swim the Tiber any time soon.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:23:11 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: pissant
Can we get Cardinal Mahoney to convert to Episcopalian?You mean "make it official?"
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:23:13 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: pissant
If Newt is twice divorced how can he get married Catholic?
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:23:43 AM PDT
by
Poison Pill
(Help, I've voted Republican and I can't get up!)
To: BlueAngel
It would really surprise me. GW is far more into Bible doctrine than Newt.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:25:48 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
To: Poison Pill
Did he get married in the Church? Somehow I doubt it.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:25:54 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Poison Pill
Because his first marriage was of questionable validity, it may be annulled.
The fact that his second and third marriages occurred while his first marriages were putatively valid takes them out of consideration right off the bat—they’re both nullities in the eyes of the Church.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:26:29 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: pissant
I understand “an old man in a white dress” wants a raise.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:26:43 AM PDT
by
WellyP
(obama must go!)
To: fish hawk
You do understand that Catholics are perfectly satisfied with their interpretation of Bible doctrine—having published the Books in question for a few millennia and all?
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:28:06 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: Non-Sequitur
I suggest this book:
With Open Arms - Catholics, Divorce & Remarriage
Hosie, S.M., John
The truth is, the terminology trips up those who do not understand the concepts.
A Catholic with a valid “civil” marriage can later receive another valid “civil” marriage, and have that new marriage respected by the Church.
In the eyes of Church, even if BOTH Weddings were held in a Catholic Church, or otherwise witnessed by a Catholic Priest, It is possible to have the second Marriage WITHIN the Church, even if both of the original partners are still alive.
-— It requires only the sincere belief by the person seeking marriage in the Church that the original marriage was not “sacramental” -— this does not even require the official “annulment” of the original Catholic marriage.
I am sure this post will create a firestorm, among Catholics and non-Catholics, alike.
But it is the truth.
It is not “remarriage” because the “conscience” loophole or the formal annulment process would both require that the first “Marriage” was invalid in the eyes of the Catholic involved, and therefore invalid in the eyes of the Church.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: WellyP
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:28:17 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
.....another “thankfully Converted Catholic!” How wonderful. :0)
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:29:12 AM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
(1/20/2013: "Change We Can Believe In")
To: GBA
I don’t think the conversion will help him politically: evangelical Protestants, who form an important part of the Republican base, will now not support him. While most Protestants would not have an issue with voting for a lifelong Catholic (though some still have trouble with it), a convert is a different matter. My guess is that it will put him in the same unelectable category as the Morman Romney.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:29:28 AM PDT
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
To: pissant
Is Noot joining the Kennedy-Pelosi wing?
Rush had some unflatterng cvomments about Noot today - the RINOs are being exposed and, hopefully, expunged.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:30:49 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Philo-Junius
Like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Bidden, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry,
Chris Dodd, Rudy Giuliani, James Carville, Paul Begala,
Terry McAulife, to name a few off the top of my head
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