Newt Gingrich and the Question of Forgiveness

The two best things I have read on the question of Newt Gingrich’s admitted past adulteries, the forgiveness of his sins upon entering into the Catholic Church, and the relevance of these facts for voters considering his presidential candidacy, are by Frank Beckwith at The Catholic Thing and Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review Online .  Both are eminently worth reading.

 

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