text: Former UK prime minister Tony Blair converts to Catholicism
  
  December 22, 2007 
  
  Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has left the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic Church. 
  Blair, currently the special envoy for Quartet on the Middle East, has long been attending mass with his wife and four children, who are all Catholic. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor received Blair into full communion with the Catholic Church during Mass at Archbishop's House, Westminster, on Friday. 
  Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said, "I am very glad to welcome Tony Blair into the Catholic Church ... For a long time he has been a regular worshipper at Mass with his family and in recent months he has been following a programme of formation to prepare for his reception into full communion ... My prayers are with him, his wife and family at this joyful moment in their journey of faith together."
tokens: Former UK prime minister Tony Blair converts to Catholicism December 22 , 2007 Tony Blair , former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , has left the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic Church . Blair , currently the special envoy for Quartet on the Middle East , has long been attending mass with his wife and four children , who are all Catholic . Cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor received Blair into full communion with the Catholic Church during Mass at Archbishop 's House , Westminster , on Friday . Cardinal Murphy - O'Connor said , " I am very glad to welcome Tony Blair into the Catholic Church ... For a long time he has been a regular worshipper at Mass with his family and in recent months he has been following a programme of formation to prepare for his reception into full communion ... My prayers are with him , his wife and family at this joyful moment in their journey of faith together . "
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