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When Newt converted back to Catholicism, he said he experienced an inner peace he had never know before.

I'm thinking of doing it myself. When my Irish-American grandfather was being born and his mom was having a potentially fatal labor with him, her priest was called and he chose "the life of the baby over the life of the mother", even though she had 16 previous children. This caused some of the grown sons to convert to Protestant in outrage. His widowed father shortly drank himself to death in his own pub, and the boy, frequently reminded that he had "killed" his mother, was raised by shuttling among religiously warring relatives.

When suitably grown, Pop married a Scots Protestant girl largely because they were both orphans and had been living at the mercy of embattled relatives. So they "set up housekeeping" on their own and fought like true Scots-Irish until my grandfather's deathbed conversion to Protestantism 55 years later -- largely because my grandma had called for the Protestant minister, and Pop had not darkened the inside of a church of either faith for the same 55 years.

My Scots-American grandma had brought up all their offspring as Protties, and I was born to one of the daughters who married a Prottie, although her various siblings married Catholics and our cousin group was about evenly divided Catholic/Protestant. And divided we were, with all the adults fighting over the dinner table at every holiday over Kennedy vs Nixon, or Roe v Wade vs Life, or Affirmative Action vs hiring for merit. All the Catholics just happened to be Democrat and all the Protties Republican, so I was happy with the status quo of being Protestant on political grounds alone.

But as my own life slouches towards the inevitable, and now that the Democrats' embrace of partial-birth abortion and assorted other impieties have made it safer to be a Republican and a Catholic, I'm considering it. I'm tired of the flaccid lack of Biblical authority (which, in Catholicism, is based on traditional scholarship) that is the Protestant free-for-all, swirling the drain of deconstructionist moral relativism and homosexual insurrection. When I read "the land of saints and scholars" in reference to Ireland in this American Thinker article, my heart leapt.

I like Gingrich. I like Santorum. I liked Cain. I hope and pray the three of them have prominent roles in our next administration. I want to see Palin as Secretary of Energy, to resurrect that long-awaited and vital oil pipeline on earth, and the Christian men resurrecting an utterly indispensable pipeline to righteousness in our dangerously heathenized nation.

OldTax-lady is a Presbyterian from Northern Ireland. When Der Prinz and I joined the Catholic Church in 1993, she said, "I always knew you would do something weird ... it could be worse. At least your Grandpop is safely in his grave, and don't say anything to your Aunt Martha! (That was Pop's sister-in-law, from the better-than-you end of the clan.)

She appreciates our decision more after almost 20 years, during which I have not moved back "home" with children and no plans to leave, like some of her friends' children ... and also, my parents have more grandchildren than almost anyone they know. They come for Baptisms, First Communions, or Confirmations when they can, and always send a card and a present.

We will welcome you with open arms. See if you can find a priest that you can sit down with and talk. Maybe this website would help.

http://www.catholicscomehome.org/

You might call around and find a RCIA class and sit in on it for the rest of the year. (It’s a little late for the Easter Vigil and the grand entry of many into the Catholic Church.)

God bless.

And BTW, there are many of us who are staunch Republicans AND Catholics here on FR!