Posted on 11/04/2009 9:34:40 AM PST by Steelfish
Pope Invites Tony Blair To Vatican Summit To Discuss Church's Fears That Politics Is Losing Its Religion
By Nick Pisa November 2009
Catholic convert Tony Blair is among several world leaders being invited to attend a top level summit with Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the role of the Church in politics. The two-day summit will be held at the Vatican and will include other Catholic politicians from all over the world, including German chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. vice president Joe Biden, former Spanish PM Jose Maria Aznar, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Church officials have been quietly working on the conference, which will be called 'Witnesses of Christ in the Political Community', for several months.
Items to be discussed include the family, right to life, Christian roots, education and bio-ethics.
Vatican sources said that Pope Benedict XVI was becoming 'increasingly concerned' at how Christian values were being eroded because of various world governments introducing legislation against Catholic teaching. During his time in office Mr Blair chose to remain a member of the Church of England after spin doctor Alistair Campbell famously warned him: 'We don't do religion.'
Some Labour policies were at odds with the Catholic Church and Mr Blair even incurred the wrath of the late Pope John Paul II by refusing to back down over the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The former Prime Minister famously converted to Catholicism after he left Downing Street in 2007.
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*will include other Catholic politicians from all over the world, including German chancellor Angela Merkel...*
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s father was a Lutheran Pastor,
she is still Lutheran.
The Pope invited Biden for laughs and yuk yuks.
Sort of like the court jester.
Hope he brings his cap with the bells.
Merkel is CATHOLIC????
IIRC, Aznar and Berlusconi are both terrible Catholics—i.e., pro-abortion. And Biden, of course.
Isn’t Merkel East German? Yet her father was a Lutheran pastor?
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