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...remarkable rate; an April 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report found that for every person who joins the Catholic Church, four others leave. But a steady stream of high-profile political conservatives have bucked this trend by converting in the past decade, including columnist Robert Novak, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback and CNBC host Larry Kudlow. Unlike Evangelicals, for whom conversion is often an emotional, born-again experience, Catholic converts tend to make more of a considered decision to join a theological and intellectual tradition. "Conservatives are especially receptive to the promise of there being some capital...
...Novak, Robert •not-so-worshipful obituary - the headline has the word "pugnacious...
...also the hardest-working man in show biz, just in terms of output - columns, newsletters and TV shows. Nearly every day of the past year, as he wrestled with cancer, I have thought of him when analyzing the present state of politics, and often asked myself, "What would Novak think?" (Read TIME TV critic Jim Poniewozik on Novak...
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak died this week at 78, and I already miss him. I first talked to him 25 years ago, when I was a newly hired regional political director at the Republican National Committee. Guys like me weren't even supposed to talk with reporters, let alone bigfeet like Novak. Someone told me he was calling, and so, palms sweating, I picked up the telephone and sheepishly said hello. "I hear they hired some young whippersnapper over there," he said, "and wanted to introduce myself." Then, ending the small talk, he handed down Novak Rule...
...thus began a friendship that lasted a quarter-century. We spoke regularly, usually on Mondays when he was down in Bethany Beach, Del. Novak loved to dish, yes, and his column, with its vast reach, had its uses for people all over town. But he pushed me to think, to analyze Washington and to look around corners at what was happening. He made me smarter in dozens of ways, and for that I will always be grateful. Over many lunches at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square, he also became a friend in whom I could confide...