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To: defconw; rbosque; Celtic Cross; Servant of the Cross
I am currently reading Leadership and Crisis, Bobby Jindal's new book, and wanted to leave this excerpt. I've never felt more strongly that he is the man to lead this country back to normalcy:
I prayed desperately, promising God that if He told me He existed and how to worship Him, I would consider myself blessed beyond belief and would not ask for anything else.

God used what was most important to me to get my attention back on Him. I was a normal teenage boy, so he used a teenage high school girl to get my attention.

During my junior year in high school, while attending a math tournament in New Orleans (stop snickering), I spotted Kathy. I had a crush on her, but had never mustered the nerve to say hello. This time I did, and we ended up going to a dance and having a great time ... Things were going great. Here was this pretty girl and she was interested in me! Then I asked her a simple question that changed everything.

"What do you want to do after school?"

Now, most of my friends in Baton Rouge wanted to be doctors, or football players, or teachers, or nurses; a few might have wanted to be rock stars. But she gave me an answer I had never heard. "I want to become a Supreme Court Justice," she said, "because I want to save innocent lives."

Where'd this come from? I thought to myself. And yet, I was struck by her answer. Saving the unborn gave her a purpose in life, something that was missing from mine.

Kathy was Catholic, and out of curiousity I attended Catholic Mass with her. I didn't want my parents [very strong in their Hindu tradition] to know, so I was probably the only teenager from Baton Rouge who told his parents he was going to a party so he could sneak off to church. --Bobby Jindal, Leadership and Crisis
Bobby Jindal describes himself as an "evangelical Catholic," having "tremendous admiration for the zeal of evangelical Protestants," but who "love[s] the teachings and doctrines of the Catholic Church."

I'm enjoying this book (easy-to-read, with wonderful splashes of humor, and surprising digs toward our current administration); if you like Jindal too, please pray for him and his family, asking the intercession of The Immaculate Conception on her most very beautiful feast day.
11 posted on 12/08/2010 7:47:39 AM PST by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: mlizzy

I do like Bobby Jindal. We’ll have to see what the future holds. It would be nice to have a REAL Catholic President.


13 posted on 12/08/2010 8:46:01 AM PST by defconw (Hey TSA! You can't touch this!)
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