{"id":975,"date":"2009-03-03T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/the-newt-evangelization-gingrich-to-become-catholic.html"},"modified":"2009-03-03T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T06:22:00","slug":"the-newt-evangelization-gingrich-to-become-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/the-newt-evangelization-gingrich-to-become-catholic.html","title":{"rendered":"The Newt Evangelization: Gingrich to become Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried deep inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/01\/magazine\/01republicans-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;pagewanted=all\">this long and wonkish profile of Newt Gingrich<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times, was this little nugget that, I suspect, went largely unnoticed: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Sa0UZFtYOUI\/AAAAAAAAFN0\/OhQ3cIu5NMY\/s1600-h\/01republicans.1-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 167px;height: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/Sa0UZFtYOUI\/AAAAAAAAFN0\/OhQ3cIu5NMY\/s200\/01republicans.1-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>At a moment when the role of religious fundamentalism in the party is a central question for reformers, Gingrich, rather than making any kind of case for a new enlightenment, has in fact gone to great lengths to placate Christian conservatives. The family-values crowd has never completely embraced Newt, probably because he has been married three times, most recently to a former Hill staff member, Callista Bisek. In 2006, though, Gingrich wrote a book called \u201cRediscovering God in America\u201d \u2014 part of a new canon of work he has done reaffirming the role of religion in public life. The following year, he went on radio with the evangelical minister James Dobson to apologize for having been unfaithful to his second wife. (A Baptist since graduate school, Gingrich said he will soon convert to Catholicism, his wife\u2019s faith.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size:78%\"><b>PHOTO:<\/b><i>  by Nigel Parry for the New York Times.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried deep inside this long and wonkish profile of Newt Gingrich in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times, was this little nugget that, I suspect, went largely unnoticed: At a moment when the role of religious fundamentalism in the party is a central question for reformers, Gingrich, rather than making any kind of case for a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-converts","category-links-r-us","category-politics-and-politicians"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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