Tony Blair would be the equivalent of a Democrat.
As far as I am concerned, no Democrat can be or become a Catholic, for precisely the same reason no Communist or Nazi could be or become a Catholic.
Ted Kennedy was allowed a Catholic funeral because a Mafia priest was seen skulking around the Kennedy compound, satisfying the legal requirement of some semblance of the practice of the Faith. If I had heard Kennedy’s confession, a condition of absolution would have been a public statement expressing contrition for and renunciation of the wickedness he championed publicly for decades.
Some toady priest received Blair (nominally) into the Catholic Church without requiring him to renounce his pro-abortion position. And when his wife got pregnant at 40 or a little beyond, she let everyone know they were using birth control.
At William Brennan’s funeral, Fr. Milton Jordan of the Washington Archdiocese declared of the man who engineered Roe v. Wade, “Bill left the world a better place than he found it.”
Fr. Rutler coined a term for the religion of the Kennedys, Cuomos, Pelosis, Cardinal Wuerl, Cardinal McCarrick Cardinal O’Malley, Cardinal Dolan, etc.: “surreal Catholicism.”
“At William Brennan’s funeral, Fr. Milton Jordan of the Washington Archdiocese declared of the man who engineered Roe v. Wade, “Bill left the world a better place than he found it.”
Roe v. Wade passed by a 7-2 vote. Even if Brannan had not not voted, it would have still passed. The court was dominated by liberal protestants. The only two dissenting votes were JFK appointed Byron White (Episcopalian) and Nixon appointee William Rehnquist (Lutheran).
So I don’t really know what you mean by saying Brennan, who was a liberal (another wasted republican appointee), was the “engineer” of Roe v. Wade. I think Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, was the architect. He never saw an abortion he didn’t like and wrote the opinion on Roe v. Wade.