\u00a0 Rick Santorum\u2019s journey to devout Catholicism, view of religion in governance \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is often assumed by the media, the general public, his supporters, his opponents, and evangelicals to be an evangelical.\u00a0 He isn\u2019t.\u00a0 He is a Roman Catholic.\u00a0 In fact, he is really, really Catholic, a fellow-traveller with Opus Dei, an organization that some say is more Catholic than the Pope.\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[65,1642,1894,1918],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-politics","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-opus-dei","tag-rick-santorum","tag-roman-catholic-church"],"yoast_head":"\n
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