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The Deacon's Bench
Tony Blair = St. Paul?
By
deacon greg kandra
I suspect we’ll be hearing more and more about Tony Blair’s conversion, as more experts and friends and enemies weigh in. Today’s nugget: from Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent from the London Times, who spoke with one of the priests who shepherded Blair on the road to Rome: The Roman Catholic priest who was instrumental in…
It started at Downing Street…
By
deacon greg kandra
More details are seeping out about Tony Blair’s conversion. This piece from the Guardian says that he actually began instruction before leaving his job as prime minister: Tony Blair began formal instructions to convert officially to Roman Catholicism four months before leaving office, it emerged last night, after it was confirmed that the former Prime…
It’s official: Tony Blair is Catholic
By
deacon greg kandra
After months, if not years, of speculation, Tony Blair has crossed the Tiber. The report from the Times of London: The former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been received into the Roman Catholic Church. Mr Blair was received into full communion with the Catholic Church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, during Mass in…
A Muslim in Iraq: “Tell me more about Jesus”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Every now and then, a conversion story hits you so hard you just stop and go “Whoa.” That pretty much sums up my reaction to this remarkable item from the Catholic News Agency. A stringer went over to Iraq and spent some time with a Navy chaplain, Fr. Jose A. Bautista-Rojas: As Fr. Bautista continued…
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