Lewis Powell: The conspirator who was "different."

[Linda Anderson]

(08-16-2014 11:09 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Roger,

I am very close to hopping over the fence to your side. Call me really silly, but I just can't wrap myself around Mrs. Surratt being a VERY devout Catholic convert but condoning murder. If Weichmann's statement that she asked him to pray for her intentions is true, however, that would make all the difference. Does one pray for absolution before the deed is done?

Maybe some people pray for absolution before they commit the deed but that is not how the sacrament of reconciliation works. She was probably praying that Booth would be successful in killing Lincoln and that he wouldn't be caught!

I'm not so sure Mrs. Surratt would have considered killing Lincoln murder anyway. He was her version of Hitler.