Yes it seems Tony has joined the club now, well first I will say
welcome, second get down to confession, and third you will probably need to go to confession more than once Tony.
I don't really see what the big deal is to be honest, so what if he has converted to Catholicism? I think its interesting that even in the 21st century its very difficult for a senior public servant in Britain to admit to being a catholic, I think the media coverage kinda speaks volumes about the anti-Catholic thing that still goes on in Britain, even though the vast majority of people are basically secular. Its being treated like some big deal that the ex-Prime-Minister has converted to the religion that everyone knows he has come to believe in over the last 10 years, shock horror. God I wonder what would happen if Prince Charles converted, then there would really be a bit of a storm wouldn't there? It just goes to show that religion is not a dead issue at all, we all just ignore it in this part of the world nowadays.
I do understand though why people would think it odd that the person who sent Britain into Iraq now promotes himself as a man of peace and now a Catholic convert, but people are complicated and Blair is a complex individual. But he is entitled to freedom of religion so really, I don't see there being much of an issue, and their shouldn't be a issue about a Prime Minister being a Catholic, why should it matter to the Church of England or the Democratic Unionist Party whether the Prime Minister of the U.K. is a Catholic unless they think that senior positions in the British State are only for protestants as they are the only people that are trustworthy? A very strange state of affairs indeed.
