Harriert Miers: Not A Catholic.

Harriet_miersOkay, y’know how Harriet Miers is a fallen-away Catholic who became a born again Evangelical?

NOT!

I mean, she’s an Evangelical alright, but it turns out that (despite claims to the contrary) she was never a Catholic.

Catholic News Agency is reporting:


The Diocese of Dallas has confirmed that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is not Catholic; neither did she receive any of the sacraments of initiation in the Catholic Church.


The diocese reviewed its records after the media reported that the longtime Dallas lawyer reported that she had attended Catholic mass as a child. Acquaintances of Miers had also said she worshipped as a Catholic and attended Episcopalian and Presbyterian services.

So the good news is that we don’t have to worry about Harriet Miers having turned her back on the true Church.

The bad news is that she also isn’t a member of it (at present).

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

15 thoughts on “Harriert Miers: Not A Catholic.”

  2. Is it possible someone brought her to Catholic services in her youth without having her baptized there so there would be no records?

  4. My mom went to Catholic churches too when she was a kid but was a Baptist. Of course she converted later when our priest found out a Baptist was teaching confirmation classes.

  5. I also would like to point out that the records kept at churches aren’t always…impeccable?
    I have my own experiences with that. I know baptismal records are usually better kept than confirmation records, but it doesn’t preclude the possibility that her paperwork was never done right.

  6. Maybe Scalia and Thomas can convert her. Wouldn’t that give the Evangelicals something to talk about at the water cooler.

    Hopefully they will never get the chance! Not that I don’t want to see Miers converted, but there’s no need to send he to the Supreme Court just for that. I would rather see her converted by someone in her local pro-life group, and give Scalia and Thomas a chance to convert some other Evangelical justice with better constitutional qualifications.

  7. If she was not baptised in the Dallas Diocese, her records would not be found in Dallas since they are all kept at the parish/diocese where you are baptised.

  8. What if a person was baptized in a protestant church and then was brought to a Catholic church as a child and called himself a “catholic”. Wouldn’t that person be a “catholic” in some sense?
    And why would a Christian attend the Episcopalian “church”?
    I don’t get the impression that this lady has strong moorings.

  9. Steve, it would depend on whether or not that child was raised in the Catholic faith, and received the other sacraments.
    Personally, Steve, I think you are right. I don’t really trust the Bush White House either, because it often does the opposite of what it claims to stand for. If Miers turns out to be a liberal, expect there to be huge problems.

  10. A person without strong convictions is much more likely to end up a liberal than a conservative.
    Once Miers votes to affirm Roe, she will be praised as having “grown,” etc. by the New York Times.
    Somthing similar happened to O’Connor and Kennedy.

  11. No argument here. My belief is that her Christianity is a “put-on” to assuage voters. It will be interesting to see what kind of “Christian” values she exudes, once she is finally confirmed.

  13. Come on– he’s the president of the whole country. That includes a lot of Muslims. If you want to live in a place where religious cultures other than your own are completely ignored by the political leadership, maybe you should join that semi-secessionist group in South Carolina…

  14. Sorry about the sharp tone of that. All I meant was that we do need to have a representative government. After all, wouldn’t we complain about an agnostic President who took the Bible out of his library, and failed to acknowledge Christmas or Easter in any way?

  15. our “evangelical” president celebrates a yearly Ramadan dinner
    If he’s not participating in the actual fast, he’s not participating in Ramadan.
    (Otherwise it’s like saying “he participates in Catholic Lent” by eating steak and chocolate cake on Sundays.)
    maybe you should join that semi-secessionist group in South Carolina
    Sandlappers don’t want interlopers from other states coming in and telling us how to run our state.

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