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1 posted on 03/31/2009 12:01:32 PM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 03/31/2009 12:02:02 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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Unless you’re a charletan, converting is generally a quiet private affair. There was this guy before named Stephen Dubner who tried to make his career writing about his conversion but I saw the entire affair as rather tasteless.


3 posted on 03/31/2009 12:04:10 PM PDT by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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Wouldn’t it be Easter?


4 posted on 03/31/2009 12:05:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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Who? ..some old washed up has-been global warming believing ex-conservartive Speaker, currently a Sean Hannity Butt-Boy!


5 posted on 03/31/2009 12:05:24 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Other well-known personalities who have swum the Tiber.


Gary Cooper


Jeb Bush


Frances Shand Kydd - Mother of Princess Diana

7 posted on 03/31/2009 12:07:31 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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That he doesn’t want to talk about it is natural; it is however unusual not to wait till Easter, only a few weeks away. Perhaps that, too, was done to reduce the media noise.


8 posted on 03/31/2009 12:07:46 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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Good for Newt.

Religion isn’t (or shouldn’t be, anyway), a public relations opportunity.


9 posted on 03/31/2009 12:07:48 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Collect the whole set!)
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It’s a private matter. Why should he comment?


12 posted on 03/31/2009 12:10:39 PM PDT by Lorianne
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“So far, Gingrich has been conspicuously quiet about his conversion.”

Can one be “conspicuously quiet” in a normal civilized setting? (I'm excluding rallies for the Fuhrer of any era.). I think it absurd to describe someone as “conspicuously quiet” on a personal matter.

13 posted on 03/31/2009 12:11:00 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Am I a socialist? I'm stunned, absolutely stunned, that you should ask, Barack Hussein Obama.)
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Well I certainly hope that he is better behaved as a Roman Catholic than he was as a Baptist. As a Baptist I always was embarrassed by his adultury and divorces - especially his repeat performance while President Clinton was doing his Monica thing. BTW - Mr. Clinton is an example of a BINO. Kinda like some of the Kennedys that are CINOs.


15 posted on 03/31/2009 12:13:56 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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Welcome home, Mr. Gingrich!


22 posted on 03/31/2009 12:20:15 PM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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Perhaps Sarah Palin will see the error of her ways and swim the Tibur too! We can always hope, right?

Sarah Palin, a lovely woman already, would just cause our hearts to burst with gladness if she was seen caressing a rosary... And kneeling in prayer!


28 posted on 03/31/2009 12:25:35 PM PDT by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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God bless him :)


29 posted on 03/31/2009 12:27:22 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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He probably went dark on the subject because a leftist on Twitter ripped him as the "thrice divorced, blah, blah..." However, he tweeted just an hour ago.
30 posted on 03/31/2009 12:28:02 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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“Gingrich has been conspicuously quiet about his conversion.”

So ficking what!!!

Unless he wants to make it public, it’s nobody elses bussiness.


39 posted on 03/31/2009 12:40:15 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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So far, Gingrich has been conspicuously quiet about his conversion.

How can you be "conspicuously quiet"? Only if there is some jerk from US News who wants you to give him an interview. None of your beeswax, Gilgoff.

44 posted on 03/31/2009 12:51:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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All the best to Newt but I do worry that wife #3 is a bit too tightly wound ...


55 posted on 03/31/2009 1:06:53 PM PDT by dodger
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I am Catholic, but perhaps someone could clarify Church Law for me. I thought that if a Catholic gets divorced (or maybe gets divorced and then remarried), that they incur automatic excommunication. If this is the case, how is it that Newt is allowed to become Catholic?? If I recall correctly he is divorced and remarried. If living in that state would cause someone who is already Catholic to be excommunicated, shouldn't it also prevent a non-Catholic from being able to enter the Church (unless they first obtain an annulment)??

I am a bit dodgy on some of the finer details of Church Law in this area, so I thought this would be an opportune time to ask.

56 posted on 03/31/2009 1:07:33 PM PDT by Zetman
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And how is this the business of Dan Gilgoff & US News?!


68 posted on 03/31/2009 1:29:14 PM PDT by kcvl
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Newt’s conversion—could that be why there was all that thunder and light reported all along the East Coast last weekend??????


90 posted on 03/31/2009 6:55:43 PM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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