The Audacity of Poping

The Daily Beast ^ | Christopher Buckley

[Alex Murphy]

Mrs. Gingrich #2 was dumped after her husband had carried on an extramarital affair with a fetching, blond congressional staffer named Callista Bisek, who went on to become the present Mrs. Gingrich #3. This Family Values paradigm was complicated by the fact that whilst Mr. Gingrich was filibustering Ms. Bisek over the Speaker’s desk, he was simultaneously leading the impeachment charge against a naughty president of the United States....The much-married Newt Gingrich converts to Catholicism this weekend—and I’d pay a year’s salary to have been a bug on the wall during his religious instruction.

Excerpts from Christopher Buckley's much-maligned article are featured on another thread today - I figured that some might want to read the article in full, rather than take someone else's word for it.

[ikka]

Watch out Benedict! Just kidding...

[Kansas58]

Well
King Henry the VIII started the Anglican Church.

No reason a King who KILLED his wives should come between good Catholics and the Church of England, huh?

[SoCalPol]

Christopher Buckley
the POS who doesn’t support his illegitmate son

[Minn]

The negative vibe given off by this guy is overwhelming. Even while cheering his 94 revolution, it was hard to look past his bloated sense of self-importance. Sitting on the couch with Nancy demonstrated his has-been status emphatically. He is definitely not what is needed when trying to preach conservatism to blue state and female America.

[OpusatFR]

“I figured that some might want to read the article in full, rather than take someone else’s word for it.”

Oh ok. I guess posting a Catholic-bashing duplicate so that one can read it for oneself is as good an explanation as any.

*wink wink wink

[Gumdrop]

As today’s gospel taught us, “Let the first one without sin throw the first stone”.

Gingrich’s first wife is deceased and is not in the picture. Whatever the situation with Marianne’s first and second marriages are, I cannot say.

I do, however, admit, this will be a BIG GOSSIP subject just in time for Holy Saturday’s RCIA addmittance of adults to the RC church.

I truly hope Newt’s conversion is sincere. As for the rest of us, we also need conversion day after day. May God have mercy on us all!

[Dr. Sivana]

I don't have any use for Christopher Buckley. However, the article he wrote was intelligently written. One strange term he used, however, is in the following excerpt:

Her singing, along with the prominence of her husband,[ . . . ] will doubtless bring her into continued contact with present and future vicars of Rome.

What in heaven's name is a vicar of Rome? One of the Pope's titles is "Vicar of Christ." Another is "Bishop of Rome." "Vicar of Rome" makes him sound like the Deputy Mayor of the place or something.

[TheBattman]

He’s like another of his fellow Catholics—Madonna—only, well, different.

I thought Madonna had joined some cultish, Judiasm-related religious movement (Kabbalah, I think)?

[A.A. Cunningham]

All hail the benevolent Murphy!

[SevenofNine]

HEY MONK Check this out

[hosepipe]

The Pope'ing of Newt Gingrich could become a Board game..
Amazing since Newt seems to be very intelligent otherwise..

[Campion]

People who convert to Catholicism are stupid?

I guess a "stupidity" that includes men like John Henry Newman and G.K. Chesterton is more to my liking than some kinds of "intelligence".

[Patriotic1]

How true. This month’s Magnificat has a litany for conversion of heart. Every day we must renew ourselves and our hearts to God.

Newt’s a sinner, as are all of us. That describes pretty much every Christian, I would assume.

[hosepipe]

[ People who convert to Catholicism are stupid? ]

Not catholicism but Roman Catholicism..
You know schismatic catholicism...

[hosepipe]

[ People who convert to Catholicism are stupid? ]

Not catholicism but Roman Catholicism..
You know schismatic catholicism...

[MeanWestTexan]

“King Henry the VIII started the Anglican Church.”

Kind of. The reformers (some don’t call the lower-case catholics “protestants,” but whatever term you want to use for apostolic, non-Roman Catholics) were already well on their way to seperation.

Henry VIII merely got on board the train before it left him at the station.

[vladimir998]

I am willing to give Newt the benefit of the doubt. Buckley voted for Obama. In my book, he’s done.

[annalex]

The Vicar of Shropsville, etc., has an Anglican ring to it. I think Mr. Buckley got his cultural bearings a tad off.

[vladimir998]

Campion, as always, is spot on. If only stupid people become Catholic, then I would very much like to share in the stupidity of Newman, Knox, Lunn, Dawson, Benson, Waugh, Chesterton, and so many others.

When the intelligence of these converts is compared with the intelligence of your statement, it is not the converts who come across as rather dimwitted.