Former British PM converts to Catholicism
They deserve each
other.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has become a Roman Catholic, church officials said Saturday, ending widespread speculation that he would switch to the faith of his wife and four children.
But as Catholic leaders welcomed Blair into the fold, immediate questions were raised about whether the 54-year-old had now renounced his views on contentious areas like abortion, gay rights and stem-cell research.
A spokesman for the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, said Blair had been “received into full communion with the Catholic Church” at a private mass on Friday night.
Maybe he’ll run for Pope?
Posted: Sat - December 22, 2007 at 03:29 PM