But he has indicated that he had Catholic beliefs long before he actually converted and that he felt that he had been truly a Catholic all along. Perhaps his impending interview with Fern Britton about religious beliefs, will shed some light on this. The series starts this Sunday with Dolly Parton, then following week, Desmond Tutu.
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Tony Blair said his conversion to Catholicism had been driven by his wife, Cherie, adding that it "felt right" and "is now where my heart is".
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"As time went on, I had been going to mass for a long time ... it's difficult to find the right words. I felt this was right for me. There was something, not just about the doctrine of the church, but of the universal nature of the Catholic church."
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If his wife hadn't been a Catholic, then he wouldn't have had these Catholic feelings and tendencies in the first place.
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Despite ambitions to be a rock star or a footballer when he arrived at university, Blair said he was soon taken by his future wife, Cherie Booth, who was already an active Catholic on campus. During his recent speech, Blair said she had been the driving force behind his conversion shortly after leaving office two years ago. Today he added that conversion was "a path I have followed for 25 years," helped, he added, by a crucial private mass held by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
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25 years is a long time.