{"id":1122,"date":"2005-10-14T09:23:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T09:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/more-faith-and-politics-yay.html"},"modified":"2005-10-14T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T09:23:59","slug":"more-faith-and-politics-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/more-faith-and-politics-yay.html","title":{"rendered":"More faith and politics! Yay!"},"content":{"rendered":"

But it’s Brownback this time, so the vibe is a different one:<\/a><\/p>\n

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After testing his stump speech on Tuesday night, Senator Sam Brownback rose early on Wednesday for a tour of the cavernous chapel and regimental dining hall used by the 30 remaining Benedictine monks of St. Anselm’s abbey. <\/p>\n

"I wondered if the numbers were starting to tick up?" Mr. Brownback asked hopefully of the monastery’s population. <\/p>\n

"It is more of a trickle than a stream," said the Rev. Jonathan DeFelice, president of St. Anselm College, noting that there were more than 70 monks when he arrived 30 years ago. <\/p>\n

Mr. Brownback, an evangelical-Protestant-turned-Roman Catholic from Kansas<\/span><\/a> who attends services in the two faiths each Sunday and once washed an aide’s feet in a gesture of humble devotion, is contemplating a big bet on a resurgence in traditionalist faith that he hoped to find in the monastery’s numbers. <\/p>\n

He came here to assess the potential for a Republican presidential primary campaign centered on opposition to abortion and support for God in public life, while back in Washington his current role as the Republican most publicly questioning the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers is becoming the first big test of his long-shot campaign.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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