Just unacceptable

as Cardinal's former aide attacks the Vatican.

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When anyone joins the Catholic Church, the general idea is to leave your past life behind you or it is not a conversion in the proper sense. Blair is trying to spin his way in. Pity for him Campbell is not a Catholic, he would have been less blatent but would have spun on behalf of his master all the same.

For Blair's part, he should realise that entering the Catholic Church is not like getting a political agreement. You cannot make your own terms with the Catholic Church. That is Her glory.

If the Cardinal thinks he can accept Blair into the Catholic Church in some secret ceremony in his private chapel, without a public recantation of his known position on abortion, he has another think coming.

The Catholic clergy and laity do not lack the courage to speak clearly on moral issues and they will. The cries of their outrage will be the last sounds the Cardinal hears as he departs his office.

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