The Pope Did It?

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(01-07-2016 08:45 AM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Though I don't believe that there was any Catholic conspiracy involved in Lincoln's assassination, I will say that my own research has led me to lean more toward the idea that John Wilkes was likely a Catholic convert. At the very least, Asia Booth was convinced that he was a Catholic, but I doubt he was ever as devout as she was.

What has brought you to sway in that direction? How familiar are you with the tenets of both the Episcopal and Catholic faiths that would cause him to make the effort to jump across that very fine line that separates the two?

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Mr. Serup,

Boy, getting a little testy are we when our thoughts and/or research are called into question...?

Don't challenge my friendships with Dr. Head and Dr. Alford since you know absolutely nothing about it. Both Constance and Terry were/are good friends, but that does not mean that I discuss(ed) minute details on Booth and the assassination and Booth's choice of religion with them. I agree with Terry that Asia is probably the only person who truly understood her brother, but we don't know whether Booth told her the truth if he said he was Catholic - was he just pacifying her?

What I posted here were my thoughts on Booth's chances of converting, and I probably said much the same thing to them -- after forty plus years of discussing the Lincoln assassination with probably 25 authors and more wanna-be authors on the subject, I have no idea what I have argued with whom. I'm a used history teacher with an insane addiction to the assassination story. A trained teacher throws out questions to make other people think. I also try to use common sense to determine if things were possible. I detect that you do not appreciate my approach/technique.

Your last paragraph puzzles me because I had just mentioned the religious medal on Booth (could have been either Catholic or Episcopal) and the church bazaar, which was at St. Aloysius, a church that Mary and Anna Surratt sometimes supported.

I seem to touch more raw nerves with you than other posters on this thread have done, so I will back off with my common sense questions. You won't convince me, and I won't convince you.