Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Giuliani. Pat is a Pentecostal televangelist who wanted to be president once. Rudy is a Catholic who wanted to be a priest once, but will settle for pope if his own presidential ambitions don't work out. Read about it here for now, but much more coverage to come elsewhere. Best bit was a snip from Rudy's CBN interview back in September, which certainly qualifies for consideration in the John Kerry Catholic Candidate of the Year sweepstakes:

I believe in God, I pray to God, pray to Jesus for guidance and for help, Mr. Giuliani said. I have very, very strong views on religion that come about from having wanted to be a priest when I was younger and having studied theology for four years in college, its an area that I know really, really well academically. I understand the history of religion. Man and womens relationship to God is one of the strongest, if not the strongest motivating thing in human history.

David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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