Obama Invites Racist, Bigoted, Cop-Hating “Poet” to Stain White House and Nation, While Americans Galvanize in Opposition to Invite

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Obama Invites Racist, Bigoted, Cop-Hating “Poet” to Stain White House and Nation, While Americans Galvanize in Opposition to Invite

“Tell the law my Uzi weighs a ton … I hold up a peace sign but I carry a gun,” says Obama’s nasty fellow congregate of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church, rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., aka “Common.”

While Obama at first tried to defend the racist, antisemitic, pro-Communist Wright, he eventually had to throw, if only publically, Wright overboard. But Common defended his minister.

“What I picked up from the pews…was messages of love,” Common said back then. “Anything that was going on against that love he would acknowledge and expose. He’s been a preacher that’s helped raise one of the greatest political figures in the world, and hopefully, the next President. He’s also raised one of the greatest rappers in the world [meaning Common himself].”

In fact, Common rapped at the 2008 New Year celebration at Wright’s church. “I’m gonna let you know. No people want drama. We gonna vote for my man. What’s his name? Obama … Revolution is here,” he sang, while Rev. Wright danced in the background.

Though Obama and company say they “will celebrate American poetry and prose with a gathering of poets, musicians and artists at the White House next Wednesday night,” Obama is inviting a man who hates interracial relationships – unless it’s just for sex.

TOUCH: So you don’t agree with mixed race relationships? COMMON: I disagree with them. It’s a lack of self-love. It’s a problem.

TOUCH: Have you ever dated outside your race? COMMON: Nah, not dated [giggles].

TOUCH: Have you slept with anybody outside your race? COMMON: Yeah, I definitely have.

In one rap song he says, “I don’t know what it is, but white girls gettin’ ass, I know what it is, it’s cash.”

And what does this twisted rapper have to say about the men and women in blue who keep all of us (including him) safe from criminals and chaos?

“Them dick boys got a lock of cock in them

“My people on the block got a lot of [Tu]pac in them…” he raps.

“Flyer say Free Mumia on my freezer,” he raps in another song. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a prison inmate and former member of the Black Panther Party who was convicted in 1981 for killing a Philadelphia police officer.

Common even named his daughter after Assata Shakur, a Black Panther who was convicted of first-degree murder 1977 and escaped from prison and exiled to Cuba, with the FBI recognizing her as a domestic terrorist.

And what does Common think of another, previous Oval Office holder? In a 2007 “poem” entitled, “A Letter to the Law,” Common spoke about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and what to do with President Bush.

“Seeing a friend being hung. With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?

“Burn a Bush ’cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction.”

So, Obama and company think it nothing to try to teach our children that killing cops and former Presidents is good “poetry,” while rapping about racism against white women is also good music.

I haven’t called the White House telephone operators since I told them under Bush that the Republicans would lose the House AND the Senate right after I discovered Bush had no intention of fighting against Illegal Immigration. It was the last time I tried to contact Bush, and I told them – and followed through - that I was going to rip the Bush bumper sticker off my car’s bumper.

I hope everyone and anyone interested in Law Enforcement, including those who appreciate Law and Order in your community, along with those who don’t hate white women and aren’t racist, to please contact the White House comment line to tell them where they can shove the Common “poet” White House invite. Thanks.

The White House comment line to reach a live operator is 202-456-1414. Here is the White House comment line with no real live operator. 202-456-1111.

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White House Poetry Night to Include Rapper Who Promotes Cop Killing and Burning Bush

NJ State Police “Outraged” Over Rapper Invited to White House (Praised Fugitive Cop Killer)

First Lady Invites Rapper Who Hates Cops to Poetry Event

The Obamas Invite Cop Hating Rapper to the White House

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Man charged with raping, killing girl, 9

SOUDERTON, Pa., May 11 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old Philadelphia-area man was formally charged Tuesday with killing a 9-year-old neighbor he allegedly tried to molest three weeks ago.

James Lee Troutman of Souderton was arraigned on first- and second-degree murder, sexual assault and kidnapping, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The arraignment took place in a court across the street from the building where he allegedly beat and strangled Skyler Kauffman in the basement Monday. Angry neighbors shouted obscenities at him as he was led to a police car.

Troutman has no previous record of violence. Police questioned him April 18 after he allegedly locked Skyler and another girl in his apartment, across a parking lot from the one where Skyler lived, and offered to show them "his bird," releasing them when one began shouting.

Police said Tuesday they could not make an arrest because no crime had been committed.

"They blew me off," Heather Gebhard, Skyler's mother, said, arguing that decisive action then might have saved her daughter's life.

Troutman was arrested soon after Skyler's body was found in a dumpster. A police officer noticed blood on his shoes and bloody clothes were found in a search of his apartment.

Investigators say that after the killing he returned home and ate with his girlfriend, telling her he had been working out. Read more at www.upi.com

 

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U.S. government is on record questioning President Obama's citizenship status as early as when he was 5 years old

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Bombshell: U.S. government questioned Obama citizenship

Said it lacked documents to determine birth country

A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY

By Aaron Klein © 2011 WorldNetDaily

Editor's note: Jerome Corsi's "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President" is available today for immediate shipping, autographed by the author, exclusively by the WND Superstore.

The U.S. government is on record questioning President Obama's citizenship status as early as when he was 5 years old, stating it lacked documentation to determine his citizenship, WND has learned.

The citizenship inquiry dated back to 1966, when Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was attempting to secure a waiver so her second husband, Indonesian citizen Lolo Soetoro, could return to the country after his visa had expired.

Dunham separated from her first husband, Barack Obama Sr., in 1963 when the future president was 2 years old. Dunham and Obama Sr. are reported to have divorced in 1964.

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In 1965 in Hawaii, Dunham married Soetoro, an Indonesian, and moved to Indonesia in October 1967.

Soetoro had been studying at the University of Hawaii as part of a State Department-initiated student exchange program.

Soetoro's student visa had been sponsored by the University of Hawaii's Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West. The program enforced strict visa limitations, requiring foreign students to return to their home countries after two years.

Young Barack Obama with his mother

According to U.S. immigration files obtained and reviewed by WND, Soetoro was approved for a 21-month study grant beginning Sept. 1, 1962, at the East-West Center.

A memorandum from the center dated July 7, 1965, relates how Soetoro had his Class J visa briefly extended after he married Dunham due to a claimed illness on the part of Dunham. His visa had been set to expire June 15, 1964.

"He gave his wife's illness as the reason for his visa extension request," stated the center's memo.

The memo said Soetoro claimed Dunham had been "suffering from a stomach ailment which may, according to her physician, require surgery."

"When I pressed Mr. Soetoro for more information regarding the name of the physician, etc., he claimed that he could not remember exactly," continued the memo, signed by Robert Wooster of the University of Hawaii's exchange program.

Further notes from the exchange program that year related how Soetoro worked at the time for Hawaii-Pacific Engineers Surveyors.

An additional memorandum, from July 13, 1965, advised that Soetoro no longer was associated with the East-West Center, and that the University of Hawaii exchange program could not further help him renew his U.S. visa.

Soetoro had turned to the center to make a special exception in his case and to hold his return travel for another year, or until June 22, 1966.

"I gather that he intends to make every attempt to remain indefinitely with or without East-West Center approval although his manner throughout our interview was polite and cordial," stated a memo from the center.

The memo, from Robert Zumwinkle, executive director of the East-West Center's Institute for Student Interchange, relates how the program received a special cable from the Indonesian government that Soetoro, a civilian employee of the Indonesian army, must "immediately terminate his studies and return to Djakarta, Indonesia."

Lolo Soetoro and Stanley Ann Dunham (Image from University of Hawaii

Soetoro apparently was expected to devote four years of service to the Indonesian government in return for its subsidizing geography studies at the country's Gadjah Mada University, as well as for his participation in the student exchange program.

The memo made clear the East-West Center would not help Soetoro extend his U.S. visa.

It complained Soetoro did not comply with its previous instructions to return to Indonesia at the end of his studies.

Soetoro departed the U.S. for Indonesia on June 20, 1966. Once back in his home country, Soetoro attempted to secure a waiver from the U.S. immigration authorities for his immediate return to Hawaii, according to immigration files reviewed by WND.

Dunham and Soetoro both filed petitions with U.S. Immigration in hopes of persuading the American government to grant a waiver allowing Soetoro to return.

The petitions claimed Dunham would suffer undue "psychological hardship" because of Soetoro's departure.

Some petitions referenced hardship that may be suffered by Obama, then aged 5.

In a Nov. 22, 1966, interview with Robert Schultz, immigrant inspector in Honolulu, Dunham talked about financial hardships for her son.

"I buy personal things for my 5-year-old boy. I also pay $50.00 a month for a babysitter from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m," she wrote, referring to Obama.

That petition was denied, with immigration authorities determining that according to remarks from her own interview, Dunham made enough money to support both herself and her son.

A document to the Assistant Region Commission Travel Control in Honolulu from December 1966 specifically stated, "It was also determined that the applicant's spouse is now employed and can adequately maintain both herself and her 5-year-old child by a former marriage."

Facing repeated denials, Dunham decided she would apply for a visa to Indonesia to live with Soetoro.

'Nothing on file' to document Obama’s citizenship

Before that, immigration authorities exchanged queries about Obama, with one noting questions about Obama's citizenship.

One critical exchange is dated August 21, 1967, from Sam Benson, an officer at the Southwest Immigration and Naturalization Service office in San Pedro, Calif.

Benson's query stated, "There is nothing in the file to document the status of the spouse's son. Please inquire into his citizenship and residence status and determine whether or not he is the applicant's child within the meaning of Section 101(b)(1)(B) of the Act, who may suffer exceptional hardship within the meaning of Section 212(a)."

The reference is to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which defined a "child" as an unmarried person under 21 years of age who, among other qualifiers, could be a "stepchild," whether or not born out of wedlock, provided the child had not reached the "age of eighteen years at the time the marriage creating the status of stepchild occurred."

A response to Benson's inquiry came from one "W.L. Mix" of the central immigration office, who determined Obama was a U.S. citizen.

Mix replied: "Pursuant to inquiry from central office regarding the status of the applicants' spouse's child by a former marriage."

"The person in question is a United States citizen by virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961. He is living with the applicants' spouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is considered the applicant's step-child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to the child's mother on March 5, 1965."

The files do not state how the office determined Obama was born in Honolulu.

With research by Brenda J. Elliott

Read the evidence that Obama could have been an Indonesian citizen.

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Deformed Iraqi babies caused by USA use of depleted uranium

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Deformed Iraqi babies caused by USA use of depleted uranium

The following pictures were provided by Dr. Siegwart Horst-Gunther, authored of a 1996 book titled, "URANIUM PROJECTILES - SEVERELY MAIMED SOLDIERS, DEFORMED BABIES, DYING CHILDREN" (ISBN: 3-89484-805-7). The book is a documentary record of the depleted urnaium ammunition effects on Iraqi babies that were taken between 1993 and 1995. The book has been censored in the USA. Dr. Gunther also has in his possesion additional photographs from his unpublished collection which feature the birth deformities being experienced by USA Iraqi war veterans' children. Dr. Gunther has given permission for his pictures to be treated as 'Public Domain' and copyright free. Please reproduce them and distribute them as widely as possible.

The deformities are similar to those experienced by both Vietnam war veterans and Vietnamese mothers because of the US Military/Industrial Complex's use of the abominable chemical of mass destruction called "Agent Orange". The Pentagon has swept these American baby deformities and its causes under the rug.

The USA is presently ruled by extreme evil people who do not care about human life but only in "MONEY". This group includes those who benefit from profits in the "war weapons industry" and cronies in the Bush Administration involved in "OIL". These two groups are utilizing Americas's youths as dupes. Most of the soldiers in Iraq are poor and uneducated. They are merely being utilized by the "USA ruling elite" as "cannon fodder" to protect their wealth and interests. They are being duped by making them believe that they are "heroes" and "patriots". It is very sad!

La Voz de Aztlan encourages our readership to support mother Cindy Sheehan in her struggle to support USA troops and to bring them home. Cindy, mom to a USA occupation soldier who needlessly lost his life in foreign soil, has awaken to the realities of the USA war against Iraq. She is presently camping at Bush's Crawford Ranch in protest and will be joining a massive rally in front of the White House on September 24. Viva Cindy Sheehan!

Child with almost total deformity of the face; no recognisable features at all, and what appears to be one eye situated in the middle of the forehead.

Child with hydrocephalus.

Extreme hydrocephalus; deformity of face, body and ear. The line running down the right hand side of the head would appear to show that potentially two heads were forming.

Deformity of ear; possible deformation of lower body.

Born without eyes.  I can offer no explanation as to the translucent quality of the skin other than it is possibly a result of flash photography at close range.

Huge hole in child's back, which is, I believe, an extreme form of Spina Bifida.

Possibly taken shortly after birth, this picture appears to show ambiguous genitalia, sometimes referred to as 'Non-Viable Children'.

This child is completely covered in a white susbstance of unknown properties. Obvious deformation of face and eyes. Flash photography at close range obscures detail.

Two children with similar deformities of the face. Dr. Gunther refers to this condition as 'Zyklopie.'

Child with unknown white substance covering almost the whole body.

Front view of same child. Severe deformities of mouth and eyes. The welts appear to indicate open wounds, or unformed skin tissue.

Severe body deformity, with head formed at 90 degree angle to upper torso.

Severe hydrocephalus; again, almost as though two heads were being formed.

Flash at close range obscures detail, but this appears to show malformation of the mouth and one eye missing, with the eye socket deformed.

It isn't clear what has happened to this child, and I have no explanation for the dark nature and condition of the skin.

Lack of focus obscures detail, but missing eyes are clearly visible, as is deformity of the mouth.

This picture would appear to show another 'Non Viable' child, possible male, with penis and scrotum merged.

Horrendous deformity of entire body and head. Note lack of eyes and malformation of the hands and feet.

Child with unknown defomity of the mouth, possibly a large tumour grown during foetal stage.

Malformation of hands, with almost total merging of all digits.

Severe malformation of face. Dr. Gunther refers to this condition as 'Zyklopie.'

Severe deformity of arms. This child was born to a US Gulf veteran.

Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves.

Child with previously unknown renal disease, first diagnosed in Iraq by Dr. Gunther. The speculation is that the child had played with DU ammunition casings.

Iraqi child with extreme hydrocephalus, and defects of cerebral nerves. Read more at www.aztlan.net

 

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What Could Go Wrong? China and Arab League Team Up for New World Order

By Lonely Conservative

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa

China and the Arab League are teaming up to form a new world order. Someone should alert the media. They’re a bit obsessed over the killing of Osama bin Laden. I guess they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. That, or they just don’t want you to know that the communists and Islamists are plotting to over the world. Don’t take my word for it, take the Chi-Coms‘.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Monday to discuss cooperation between China and the Arab world. China and the Arab countries decided last year to promote the strategic relationship of cooperation, which marked a new era of bilateral ties, Yang said. China is willing to join hands with the Arab world to promote the China-Arab Cooperation Forum and deepen bilateral cooperation in all sectors, Yang said. Moussa said the Arab League is happy to see the progress made in collective cooperation between China and Arab countries in fields such as politics, economy and culture. The pan-Arab body expected to enhance the level of bilateral ties with the joint efforts from China, Moussa added. Yang arrived in Cairo on Monday on a two-day visit. On Tuesday, he will meet Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces chief Hussein Tantawi.

Just for clarification, in 2007  OBL’s rantings were transcribed, and he seemed to ascribe to the commie way of life.

On international corporations: “They are the real tyrannical terrorists … “The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of “globalisation” in order to protect democracy. “And Iraq and Afghanistan and their tragedies; and the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; and the abject poverty and tragic hunger in Africa: all of this is but one side of the grim face of this global system.” On global warming: “In fact, the life of all of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of the millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa. “This greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to the lives of humans is taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being dominated by the democratic system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their representatives.”…

In other words, fanatical Islamists and communists have a lot in common. But I guess we have nothing to worry about, thanks to the Smart Power™ of the Obama administration.

Oh, and who wants to take the under on how long it would take a fanatical Islamist to slit the throat of a commie?

Via Trevor Loudon

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The Universe: Larger Than You Can Imagine

Powerful new legal tool for clergy sex abuse victims

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Powerful new legal tool for clergy sex abuse victims

by Mira Oberman, Agence France-Presse

CHICAGO, Illinois - Access to the Vatican's vaults has been a holy grail for those seeking justice for clergy sex abuse victims, and a recent US court ruling has brought them one powerful step closer.

For the first time ever, a civilian court judge has ordered the Vatican to produce documents and answer questions under oath about its role in supervising a priest accused of a long pattern of child sex abuse.

"It's really historic and monumental," said attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents the victim in the case and has filed thousands of lawsuits on behalf of clergy sex abuse victims over the past 27 years.

"This really changes the legal landscape in terms of what we want to accomplish by holding those at the top -- that is, the Vatican -- responsible and accountable in a way that they haven't been before," Anderson told AFP.

"It creates a crack in the iron door and brings hope not just on this case, but the other cases against the Vatican."

The ruling is relatively limited as US district judge Michael Mosman of Oregon seeks to answer the question of whether Father Andrew Ronan, a Catholic priest, can be considered an employee of the Holy See.

Under US law, the Vatican can be held liable for Ronan's actions if it is found to have an employment relationship with the defrocked priest.

The Vatican has argued that while it may have spiritual authority over priests, temporal issues such as employment are the purview of local dioceses and religious orders.

Mosman gave the Vatican until June 20 to respond to the order to produce documents and answer a number of questions about Ronan and the Church's general policies on the laicization of priests.

The questions concern the handling of sex abuse claims and "regulation of priests' conduct in general, including but not limited to what they wear, the places they go, hours they keep, and where they live."

The Vatican's lawyers are expected to file objections to some of the requests, and the case first filed in 2002 is far from over.

"We will be reviewing the proposed requests with care," said Jeffrey Lena, a lawyer who represents the Holy See in sex abuse litigation in the United States.

Lena acknowledged that it was a significant decision, but said it was far from a major defeat and noted that the judge ruled against the broader requests for documents and information.

"The order embraces that the core issue -- in fact the sole issue in the case -- is whether he was an employee of the Holy See at the time of the events. That, he was not," Lena said in a recent telephone interview.

"When all is said and done, when you peel away all the layers of hyperventilating accusations, the core question is was this guy an employee of the Holy See. He was not."

While the plaintiffs are unlikely to prove employment, "it's certainly feasible," said Charles Zech, head of the Center for the Study of Church Management at the Catholic Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

Oregon law has a broad interpretation of the employment relationship, and the plaintiffs will have to prove only that the Vatican is involved in one element in order to open the door to legal liability.

"If they were able to establish that there were an employment relationship it would be devastating to the Vatican, because obviously they have many more resources than any one diocese would," Zech said.

Eight US dioceses have been bankrupted by clergy sex abuse lawsuits, including the diocese of Portland, Oregon where the Ronan case is being tried.

But even if the plaintiffs fail to hold the Vatican liable in this case, the ruling has created a legal precedent which will make it easier to draw the Holy See further into clergy sex abuse cases.

"From the Vatican's perspective, this is a big issue," Zech said. "They never like to open their files to anyone, so even to open it on a limited basis -- that's a big deal." Read more at www.abs-cbnnews.com

 

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Vatican Beefing Up Security

34 new Swiss Guards sworn in during colorful Vatican ceremony

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34 new Swiss Guards sworn in during colorful Vatican ceremony

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI arrives to meet new Vatican Swiss Guards and their families , in the Vatican's Clementina Hall, Friday, May 6, 2011 prior to their swearing-in ceremony. The swearing in ceremony is held each May 6 to commemorate the day in 1527 when 147 Swiss Guards died protecting Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's Swiss Guards has sworn in 34 new recruits in a colorful ceremony in a Vatican courtyard.

The centuries-old elite group provides ceremonial duty, assists at Vatican functions and helps protect the pope. The guards are famous for their blue-and-gold uniforms, halberds and crimson-plumed helmets.

The ceremony is held each May 6 to commemorate the 147 Swiss Guards who died protecting Pope Clement VII during the 1527 Sack of Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI, in an audience with the guards Friday before the swearing-in ceremony, warned them of what he said is the threat of a "spiritual" sack that leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. The pontiff said this is an "even more dangerous sack."

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Gingrich relates journey to Catholicism

By DANIEL BURKE RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

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NEWT GINGRICH

WASHINGTON - Tilting toward a run at the presidency, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich traced his spiritual journey from Southern Baptist to Roman Catholic at a Catholic prayer breakfast here last week.

"People ask me when I decided to become Catholic," said Gingrich, who formally converted in 2009. "It would be more accurate to say that I gradually became Catholic and then realized that I should accept the faith that surrounded me."

The twice-divorced former Georgia congressman has labored to assure conservative Christians of his fidelity to traditional values. Just 11 percent of white evangelicals, and 16 percent of white Catholics, favor Gingrich as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, according to a March Pew Research Center poll.

Gingrich also explained his religious conversion last week to National Catholic Register.

"The depth of faith and history contained in the life of the Catholic Church were increasingly apparent to me," Gingrich said later. "Slowly, over a decade, the centrality of the Eucharist in the Catholic Mass became more and more obvious to me."

Gingrich also noted the spiritual influence of his wife, Callista, a lifelong Catholic, theologian George Weigel and Pope Benedict XVI.

It was Benedict's 2008 trip to the U.S. that finally drew Gingrich into the church.

"For me, the joyful and radiating presence of the Holy Father was a moment of confirmation about the many things I have been thinking and experiencing over the last several years," Gingrich said of meeting the pope that day.

That evening, Gingrich said, he decided to convert to Catholicism. Read more at www.chron.com

 

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