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The New York Times has a nicely reported article on Republican Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence\u2019s turn from Catholicism to evangelicalism.<\/p>\n

Still, it was not easy for him to leave behind the church in which he had been raised. After graduation, he worked as a Catholic youth minister and even considered becoming a priest. He described himself for years as \u201can evangelical Catholic.\u201d Friends say he wrestled with how to square his religious past and his religious future.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was part of a movement of people, I\u2019ll call it, who had grown up Catholic and still loved many things about the Catholic Church, but also really loved the concept of having a very personal relationship with Christ,\u201d said Patricia Bailey, who became close to Mr. Pence when she and her husband, Mark, worked with him at a law firm in Indianapolis in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n

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By the mid-1990s, Mr. Pence and his wife were attending an evangelical church in Indianapolis. Years later, the break from Catholicism still stung his mother, Nancy, according to Father Davis, who has been the priest at her church, now called St. Bartholomew, since 1997 and has grown close to her.\u201c<\/p>\n

You could see Nancy just shake her head about it,\u201d Father Davis said inside the rectory before Mass on Saturday. \u201cShe was disappointed. She had hoped he could find his way back to the church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Mike Pence\u2019s Journey: Catholic Democrat to Evangelical Republican \u2013 The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been interested the label \u201cevangelical Catholic.\u201d Last week, I told The Washington Post<\/a> that 1) there\u2019s no such thing and 2) it\u2019s a label of political convenience.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lupfer, a religion blogger, said the term\u00a0conflates \u201ctwo distinctive traditions in the name of political expediency. And though they claim to be concerned about theological rigor, they create considerable confusion\u2026Just because a few Catholics and evangelicals subscribe to the same conservative magazines does not mean there\u2019s such a thing as \u2018evangelical Catholicism.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Pence is different from politicians like Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio who remain practicing Roman Catholics even as they publicly embrace evangelical Protestant theological distinctives. It seems that Pence no longer has any connection to the Catholic Church at all.<\/p>\n

If Pence rejects the Church\u2019s doctrine and sacraments, hopefully he will not sow confusion during his 3-1\/2 months in the spotlight by using the term \u201cevangelical Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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