Christmastime is here, Tony Blair!

And my present to you is a Catholicised controversy that doesn't involve little boys.

Apparently, former Brit prime-minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism. He's being welcomed with open arms by the pontiff himself, but other Catholics are challenging Blair's past voting record, a generally liberal stance punctuated with "Blair government’s support for stem cell research, gay adoptions and the legalization of gay civil unions, as well as [his] resistance to toughening Britain’s abortion laws." One Christian advocate says, “We need to hear a full repudiation from him. Without one, having Blair as a Catholic is like having a vegetarian in a meat-eating club. It simply does not make sense."

If Blair honestly wishes to repudiate his previous decisions, then that is a different matter. But if he choses to do such while still secretly holding pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights views, then that's going to take a lot of chutzpah.