{"id":430,"date":"2011-03-28T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=430"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:15:34","slug":"rip-geraldine-ferraro-political-trailblazer-pro-choice-catholic-friend-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/rip-geraldine-ferraro-political-trailblazer-pro-choice-catholic-friend-of-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Geraldine Ferraro: Political Trailblazer, Pro-Choice Catholic &amp; &#8216;Friend of Israel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally blog about obituaries here &#8212; religious leaders and prominent people of faith die every week, after all &#8212; but the coverage of the death of trailblazing vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 75,\u00a0struck me as particularly interesting, from a faith-related perspective. (Also,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/03\/24\/2749462\/zsa-zsa-gabor-hospitalized-after.html\"> Zsa Zsa Gabor must be relieved <\/a>that Ferraro seems to be the third of that &#8220;celebrity deaths come in threes&#8221; belief, preceded by Jane Russell and Elizabeth Taylor.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/03\/geraldine-ferraros-catholic-side\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+getreligion%2FDmXm+%28GetReligion%29\">GetReligion has a good round-up <\/a>of the Ferraro stories from the secular media outlets like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/27geraldine-ferraro.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\"> The New York Times <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-geraldine-ferraro-20110327,0,4731433,full.story\">L.A. Times<\/a>, revisiting how the Catholic politician was blasted by church leaders over her pro-choice views.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three interesting links from religious media outlets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/03\/27\/3086584\/geraldien-ferraro-remembered-as-friend-of-israel-dies#When:18:55:00Z\">Ex-VP hopeful Geraldine Ferraro remembered as a friend of Israel <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/geraldine-ferraro\">Geraldine Ferraro <\/a>(National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/2011\/03\/27\/a-catholic-funeral-for-geraldine-ferraro\/\">A Catholic funeral for Geraldine Ferraro? <\/a>(The Deacon&#8217;s Bench, Patheos)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally blog about obituaries here &#8212; religious leaders and prominent people of faith die every week, after all &#8212; but the coverage of the death of trailblazing vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 75,\u00a0struck me as particularly interesting, from a faith-related perspective. (Also, Zsa Zsa Gabor must be relieved that Ferraro seems to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[22,20,14,19,18,24,26,21,23,25],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-catholics","tag-christianity","tag-female-politicians","tag-geraldine-ferraro","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-choice-catholics","tag-pro-israel-politicians"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RIP Geraldine Ferraro: Political Trailblazer, Pro-Choice Catholic &amp; &#039;Friend of Israel&#039; - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/rip-geraldine-ferraro-political-trailblazer-pro-choice-catholic-friend-of-israel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RIP Geraldine Ferraro: Political Trailblazer, Pro-Choice Catholic &amp; &#039;Friend of Israel&#039; - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t normally blog about obituaries here &#8212; religious leaders and prominent people of faith die every week, after all &#8212; but the coverage of the death of trailblazing vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 75,\u00a0struck me as particularly interesting, from a faith-related perspective. 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