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  • Judge Bork, baptized at 76

    07/24/2003 11:31:43 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 363 replies · 1,894+ views
    U.S. News & World Report ^ | 7/22/03 | Paul Bedard With David LaGesse
    It may be a little late to start for most, but Robert Bork, the former Supreme Court nominee who has written books decrying the decline of Western culture, has just been baptized. Rev. C. John McCloskey, who represents the conservative and activist Opus Dei arm of the Roman Catholic Church and oversaw the baptism, said, "I can confirm that he was received in the Catholic Church." Bork, a scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, was raised a Protestant and had called himself a "generic Protestant." He was known more for his conservative legal views, which some Democrats used to...