The other thing I really like about Santorum is that his faith appears to be the genuine article. If he talks about the sanctity of life, he means it. Nitpicking from Ron Paul aside. He strikes me as a guy who'd go down in flames as a pro-life hero with 30% of the vote in a re-election bid if he had to. Even the things I strongly dislike about Santorum are distinctively Catholic, and thus, Christian. As a side note, I think the bishops could stand to do even more thinking about capitalism and whether a freer version of it really is as dehumanizing as they seem to suggest. In any case though, it's more than clear that Santorum's view of government is a mainstream (if misguided) Catholic one.
I once had a friend, a dear friend, who helped me with personal care needs in college. Reformed Presbyterian to the core. When I was a Reformed Presbyterian, I visited their church many times. We were close. I still consider his siblings my friends. (And siblings in the Lord.) Nevertheless, when I began to consider the claims of the Catholic Church to be the Church Christ founded, he took me out to breakfast. He implied--but never quite stated--that we would not be brothers, if I sought full communion with the Catholic Church. That came true; a couple years later, I called him on his birthday, as I'd done every year for close to ten of them. He didn't recognize my number, and it was the most strained, awkward phone call I have ever had. We haven't spoken since. We were close enough that I attended the rehearsal dinner for his wedding. His wife's uncle is a Catholic priest. I remember reading a blog post of theirs, that early in their relationship, she told him of the p
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