From Thames to Tiber

Tony Blair and the politics of conversion

By Austen Ivereigh JANUARY 7, 2008

The reception on Dec. 21 into the Catholic Church of the UK’s former prime minister, Tony Blair, has echoes of America’s JFK moment, when the old ghosts of suspicion about divided allegiances (“Rome or home”?) were laid to rest. Yet the fact that it has happened some months after resigning as prime minister points to the difficulties Catholics continue to face in public life–that is the reason he himself has given.

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