{"id":1504,"date":"2007-06-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/06\/blair-and-benedict-conversing-about-conversion.html"},"modified":"2007-06-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T12:00:00","slug":"blair-and-benedict-conversing-about-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/06\/blair-and-benedict-conversing-about-conversion.html","title":{"rendered":"Blair and Benedict: conversing about conversion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Rn1E-B79JlI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/xqA9z__aAw8\/s1600-h\/r2644052135jpgx279y345skm3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Rn1E-B79JlI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/xqA9z__aAw8\/s320\/r2644052135jpgx279y345skm3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/\">Open Book<\/a>, Amy has posted an intriguing picture of Tony Blair and Pope Benedict, from their meeting today.  <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister presented the pontiff with a series of pictures of&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/10794a.htm\">John Henry Newman<\/a>.   A curious choice, you say?<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Encyclopedia describes Newman thus: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Cardinal-Deacon of St. George in Velabro, divine, philosopher, man of letters, leader of the Tractarian Movement, and the most illustrious of English converts to the Church. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i>  If Blair wants to throw cold water on <a href=\"http:\/\/deacbench.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/tony-blair-doing-warm-up-laps-as-he.html\">all those conversion rumors<\/a>, he&#8217;s not doing a good job of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Open Book, Amy has posted an intriguing picture of Tony Blair and Pope Benedict, from their meeting today. The Prime Minister presented the pontiff with a series of pictures of&#8230;John Henry Newman. A curious choice, you say? 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