{"id":14730,"date":"2009-08-31T17:33:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tony_blair_cherie_inspired_me_to_become_a_catholic\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:33:02","slug":"tony_blair_cherie_inspired_me_to_become_a_catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14730","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair: Cherie inspired me to become a Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Converting from the Anglican Church to Catholicism two years ago was like &#8220;coming home&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frankly, this all began with my wife. I began to go to Mass and we went together. We could have gone to the Anglican or Catholic church &#8211; guess who won?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I began preparations to become a Catholic, I felt I was coming home; and this is now where my heart is, where I know I belong,&#8221; Mr Blair told the Communion and Liberation meeting in the Adriatic resort of Rimini.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister, who now runs the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, switched to Catholicism soon after leaving office two years ago. His wife and children were already Catholic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/6106582\/Tony-Blair-Cherie-inspired-me-to-become-a-Catholic.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converting from the Anglican Church to Catholicism two years ago was like &#8220;coming home&#8221;, he said. &#8220;Frankly, this all began with my wife. I began to go to Mass and we went together. We could have gone to the Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14730\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}