Will Tony Blair convert to RCC after term?

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there are so much news in the internet about these, do you think he will do so? After all his wife is Catholic, and he accompanies her to the RCC church
 
I think that he will, and I think that GWB will convert also in a few years. Both of them are so “Catholic” in their beliefs and actions that the Church is the natural home for them.
 
Who knows? He goes to Mass with his wife sometimes and Cardinal Cormac had to tell him off about three years ago because he took Holy Communion. :nope:

Not sure what sort of a Catholic he would make though. Cafeteria probably. Cherie Blair supports “Women’s Choice” aka murder of babies, and Ordination of Women if that is a guide. 😦
 
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Who knows? He goes to Mass with his wife sometimes and Cardinal Cormac had to tell him off about three years ago because he took Holy Communion. :nope:

Not sure what sort of a Catholic he would make though. Cafeteria probably. Cherie Blair supports “Women’s Choice” aka murder of babies, and Ordination of Women if that is a guide. 😦
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True, but once he breathes the clean air of Catholic thought, he might come around. After all, who would have thought the head of the Labour Party would be George Bush’s strongest ally in 2005?
 
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True, but once he breathes the clean air of Catholic thought, he might come around. After all, who would have thought the head of the Labour Party would be George Bush’s strongest ally in 2005?
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Yeah, but the “Labour” party is in reality more of a centrist Party. Don’t let political party names deceive you. 😉 Almost like how the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is right-wing conservative and the “Democratic Progressive Party” of Taiwan is conservative as well.
 
I thought he was already catholic…
I saw on the news one day that he had an udience with the pope prior to the war in iraq, since he was a “devout catholic”, as the media put it…

or maybe i just heard wrong…
 
Political Party Names. Remember, with Blair it’s “NEW” Labour which means they are as about as far from Socialism as you can get. The policies they espouse are centrist, right. Even some of the current Tory policies are more “left” than Blair!

But back to the thread. Blair was brought up Church of Scotland/Episcopalian in the Anglican community. He certainly did have an audience with John Paul II before Iraq War. Blair was playing the great Statesman game - “We do this with a heavy heart; for world peace” sort of guff. He was hoping to get the thumbs up from the Holy Father for his actions. Instead he got a thorough dressing down - Blessed are the Peacemakers; cursed be the war mongers. Didn’t play too well with the press over here, who don’t need much excuse to press the anti-Catholic button.
 
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I think that he will, and I think that GWB will convert also in a few years. Both of them are so “Catholic” in their beliefs and actions that the Church is the natural home for them.
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Considering his voting record shows that he has voted over twenty times against any tightening of the laws favouring abortion, his actions can hardly be called Catholic.​

He is also an unblushing and constant liar, even for a politician - this is well documented, and is one of the most frequent complaints against him. He has a bad reputation for untruthfulness.

“Catholic in his actions” ? In the same sense as John Kerry, only even less so. This is the man who used, like Bill Clinton (but more often - Clinton did so just the once AFAIK) to receive the Eucharist at Mass - despite not being Catholic; whether he still does, I don’t know.

His basic approach to religion and politics appears to be opportunistic - he does what he thinks he can get away with. His modus operandi is to make promises to every group he meets - he does have a lot of charm, which he’s good at turning on and off - so he is good at making each group think he has its interests at heart. He’s a good actor - he’s very good at sounding earnest. But it’s an act. So it’s not unfair to call him devious - for a nominally Labour politician, he is very Tory-like; which is one reason English Conservatism has done so poorly these last eight years - Bliar (as he is so rightly called) has adopted many policies which they would normally have made their own. He’s a clever operator, smarmy, lacking in integrity, opportunistic. He gets on well with Silvio Berlusconi - which is interesting, & unsurprising.

One of the features of UK politics today is the constant gathering in of power to the centre, away from lower authorities - it was happening before Bliar became PM in 1997, but it’s greatly increased since then. Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno (1931) puts in a plea for subsidiarity of powers: current practice in the UK is against subsidiarity, and in favour of a nanny-state. Behaviour is far more minutely regulated than it used to be - because Bliar is a control freak; which is very “unAmerican”, BTW.

If he’s so Catholic-minded, why have his ministers included practicing homosexuals ? One had to resign after having a one-night stand with a rent boy - the other resigned and returned to office, twice, and is now in Europe with his boyfriend - some job at the EU, I think. His ministers refuse to resign when they are caught out in lies - one, having lied to Parliament, refused to resign: that would have caused a major scandal not long ago. That is the a symptom of the decay of public life under this man; & no wonder, because Bliar is the biggest liar of all, & the man who can be most trusted to break his promises: to name only one, his undertaking to resign if he won a third term.

If Kerry really deserves the avalanche of criticism he’s had - where does that leave Bliar ? “Catholic in his beliefs and actions” ? I think not. The man’s disgusting. ##
 
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