Posted on 03/27/2009 7:01:07 PM PDT by kellynla
Conservative author and former House speaker Newt Gingrich will celebrate the Easter season this year in a very special way – by converting to Roman Catholicism.
“I have become increasingly drawn to Catholicism over the past several years while attending Mass with my wife, Callista,” Gingrich tells Newsmax. “ After prayer and reflection, I believe this is where God has led me. I’m looking forward with great joy to being received into full communion with the Catholic Church.”
Rumors of the religious conversion began circulating last month when Gingrich, a Baptist since college, told The New York Times that he had been exploring a reaffirmation of the role of religion in public life and found himself increasingly attracted to his wife’s Roman Catholic faith.
Gingrich recently criticized the University of Notre Dame for choosing President Barack Obama as a commencement speaker. The Fox News contributor sent messages via micro-blogging service Twitter saying: “It is sad to see Notre Dame invite President Obama to give the commencement address since his policies are so anti Catholic values."
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He’s a mason? Or has just has “leanings”?
Freegards
Hardly
Tony Snow, Robert Bork, Robert Novak, John Cardinal Newman, Laura Ingraham, Jane Wyman, Israel Zolli, Alec Guinness, John Wayne, Dave Brubeck, G.K. Chesterton, Clare Booth Luce, Sam Brownback, Gary Cooper, Francis Cardinal Arinze, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Scott Hahn, Bob Hope, Bobby Jindal, Peter Kreeft, Marcus Grodi, Jeb Bush, Norma McCorvey, Richard John Neuhaus, Linda Poindexter, Ramesh Ponnuru, Vincent Price, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bill Veeck, William Tecumseh Sherman, the Apostles, St. Paul, ad infintium.
You are mistaken.
Yes, may all come home *to Christ*.
To hell with Rome, BTW. Or as John the Baptist might say, “May Rome decrease and Christ increase.”
Yeah, I really tire of those who love Rome more than Christ, who would rather exalt Rome than Christ.
Well, I’ve scrolled down and read all the responses.
The main thing about Newt is whether he is sincere. I think he is. None of us can get into his mind and his heart and his soul, but God Himself. I do pray that this is a true conversion. If so, then Jesus can forgive him for past trangressions, and the rest is not our business. After all, we must remember Peter, who denied Jesus three times, yet was considered the first among the apostles; and then there is Paul who persecuted the first Christians and witnessed the stoning of Stephen without stopping it. Yet, Jesus chose Paul, the Pharisee, to become Apostle to the Gentiles and the writer of all the major epistles. So, we should not judge Newt’s Christian soul, because maybe we might also be judging the work of the Holy Spirit!
The church has to look into the validity of the marriages as Sacramental or not. I know Newt was not baptized at the time of his first marriage to a woman who was several years older than he was. Besides, I think she has passed away, so that marriage would not be of concern any longer. The second marriage would be the one to be studied.
I never left god I just began to have reservations,I'll not discuss here, but the movement to the church is intriguing.
33rd degree - the highest and mostest.
Welcome home, Newt, and God bless you.
My congratulations as a convert of one year.
Easter has always been special; now it is moreso.
And congratulations to you too!
Thank you, Salvation.
I wish you a blessed Holy Week and Easter.
And who would that be?
Hear, hear!
Hoss
Remember to utter that during your particular judgment and see what it gets you.
You man the same Callista that he was having an affair with while still married to his second wife?
“You man the same Callista that he was having an affair with while still married to his second wife?”
I think you meant to say “ You MEAN the same Callista that he was having an affair with while still married to his second wife?”
and yes, the same one...St. Mary Magdalen might say “gotta a problem with that?”
” 3 The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and making her stand there in the middle
4 they said to Jesus, ‘Master, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery,
5 and in the Law Moses has ordered us to stone women of this kind. What have you got to say?’
6 They asked him this as a test, looking for an accusation to use against him. But Jesus bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger.
7 As they persisted with their question, he straightened up and said, ‘Let the one among you who is guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her.”
John Chapter 8:3-7
He’ll have to go to confession BEFORE he can join.
Or maybe he just fell in love with the church, like I did.
The tone on this thread, of non-catholics complaining that someone is’t a good enough catholic for them, reminds me a bit of the non-christians complaints about christians in general.
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