Posted on 09/14/2009 6:44:57 PM PDT by presidio9
Tony Blair has revealed that after ignoring a stern warning from his great-grandmother about marrying a Catholic, he now finds his new-found faith has become the driving force in his life as he seeks to clear up the world's religious conflicts.
Speaking to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's daily newspaper, Blair said today he considers Pope Benedict's belief that God is central to politics, society, economics and culture "brilliant".
Weeks after a packed Catholic conference in Italy gave Blair an ovation for his words about the universality of Catholicism, the pope's newspaper was equally effusive, calling the convert "a gentleman, educated, smiley, courteous in a way few know how to be".
Letting slip the Vatican's possible ambition for Blair, the paper also described him as "a probable future president of the European Union".
With a double page spread at his disposal, Blair served up a mix of anecdotes about his conversion and strong indications of how faith is at the heart of every step he takes.
Starting with his childhood, he recalled how "in one of her rare moments of lucidity, during an illness, my great-grandmother – who was in many ways fantastic – told me, 'Do whatever you want but don't marry a Catholic.' Which is exactly what I did."
Despite ambitions to be a rock star or a footballer when he arrived at university, Blair said he was soon taken by his future wife, Cherie Booth, who was already an active Catholic on campus. During his recent speech, Blair said she had been the driving force behind his conversion shortly after leaving office two years ago. Today
he added that conversion was "a path I have followed for 25 years," helped, he added, by a crucial private mass held by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
"It was
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Somebody let me know when Tony Blair actually starts to accept the teachings of the Church.
Once he does so, I might be interested in reading his opinions on things Catholic.
That’s the same thing my mother-in-law (RIP) told my husband before he met me. (that was nearly 50 years ago).
Same here.
>>> ‘Do whatever you want but don’t marry a Catholic.’ Which is exactly what I did.” <<<
Did he? Based upon her words, I thought Cherie Blair was a CINO.
As for Tony Blair...
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08121005.html
Brilliant?
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall.
As soon as he marries her
Then she starts to do
The things that will break his heart.
But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
You’ll be happy for the rest of your life,
An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
She’ll always give you peace of mind.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
Don’t let your friends say
You have no taste,
Go ahead and marry anyway,
Though her face is ugly,
Her eyes don’t match,
Take it from me she’s a better catch.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
Say man.
Hey baby.
Saw your wife the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, she’s ugly.
Yeah, she’s ugly but she sure can cook.
Yeah?. Okay.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
In the meanwhile...
let's throw great-grandma under the bus.
Funny, in my experience new converts usually make the most devoted Catholics (excluding Blair of course -he did it to make the wife happy).
Blair and his wife are awful people. He wrfecked the UK and Islamified the country with open borders. No Catholic should be happy that he has convert to Catholicism.
He is a Kennedy or baby killing Notre Dame Catholic.
Cherie B-LIAR is not even a CINO. She is a Kennedy Catholic which is even worse.
She is a hard core lefty, greedy witch.
She and hubby did their Islamification duty to the UK.
Agreed, at least in the sense we got a much better deal with Abrams, Bork, Kudlow and Novak.
If there’s anything the Brits need, it’s a rebirth of Christianity.
Whether it’s Catholicism or old-line Anglicanism (not the modern day “wet” variety), or even the historical Protestantism of the dissenters, or a combination of any of those, it would at least provide a foundation to counteract the empty secularism and toxic Mohammedenism that’s destroying a wonderful culture.
Sadly, it’ll take more than Tony Blair to get them there.
The Pope’s Newspaper? Surely this is said in jest. Is the gentleman not aware of some of the controversial editorials and other writings appearing in this paper? Ones that at times contradict Catholic teaching.
Goodness, who do these people think they are?
And yet he refuses publicly to accept the central beliefs of his new-found faith and has stated that they should change.
I can’t stand ND. My favorite college football team is whoever’s playing the Irish. That being said, there are a lot of wonderfully devout Catholics at the school. Both in the student body and in the faculty. If you want to blame somebody for Obama’s invitation there, blame the board, and only the board. It was 100% their call.
Let’s home he becomes more Catholic and less CINO!
Let’s hope he becomes more Catholic and less CINO!
I am a Notre Dame alumnus. Not all of us are “baby killers”. Many of us are really ashamed of the current president of the university and its board of trustees.
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