NEWT: Does Faith Matter? Absolutely.

www.youtube.com ^ | 10/18/2011 | Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich

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Before my mother in law died, incidentally 21 years ago today, she was in a coma and was a Christian but not Catholic. My husband and I didn’t know what type of service we should have for her when she died. We thought about having her baptized Catholic as she had often said that she admired the Catholic Church. We consulted a priest and he said that he could perform a “conditional” Baptism in case she had never been baptized. We agreed to that, and the next day, she came out of her coma. We asked if she had ever been baptized in any Christian Church, she said no, and we told her about her “conditional” baptism. She was delighted and the priest removed the “conditional”.

She died about a week after that, and our pastor told us that because of her Baptism all her sins were wiped away and she would go straight to heaven.

Here’s the kicker. When she was pregnant with my husband back in 1950, she was having a rough time with her marriage to my husband’s Dad. She felt desperate, so she went to a nurse on the Army base because my father in law was in the Army. The nurse gave her a pill to “bring down her period” but it didn’t work and my husband was born. As my husband’s life progressed, we met and got married. I am Catholic, but he wasn’t at the time. He converted to Catholicism because of being married to me and the kids being baptized.

So she tried to abort my husband, which was a major sin, but instead he was born, and because of his life, she was baptized Catholic, and her soul was wiped clean and she was saved.

The same applies to Newt. He has much baggage, but when he was Baptized, his sins were forgiven and his spiritual life began anew from that point on.