Any Catholic apologists who are not converts?

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Name a good Catholic apologist who is a cradle Catholic. I’m sure there are some but I’m just not familiar with any. Don’t say St. Augustine. 19th century or later please.

All of the following are converts.

Keating
Madrid
Hahn
Chesterton
Newman
Kreeft
Knox
Thomas Howard
Dave Armstrong (a great internet apologist. See ic.net/~erasmus/RAZINDEX.HTM )

There’s also Father Richard John Neuhaus: not exactly an apologist, but often ends up defending Catholicism very well.

Is this why most Catholic apologetics is aimed at Protestants instead of non-Christians–because they’re all former Protestants?
 
Racer X:
Name a good Catholic apologist who is a cradle Catholic. I’m sure there are some but I’m just not familiar with any. Don’t say St. Augustine. 19th century or later please.

All of the following are converts.

Keating
Madrid
Hahn
Chesterton
Newman
Kreeft
Knox
Thomas Howard
Dave Armstrong (a great internet apologist. See ic.net/~erasmus/RAZINDEX.HTM )

There’s also Father Richard John Neuhaus: not exactly an apologist, but often ends up defending Catholicism very well.

Is this why most Catholic apologetics is aimed at Protestants instead of non-Christians–because they’re all former Protestants?
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Karl Keating and Pat Madrid are both Cradle Catholics. Jeff Cavins is a revert. His book My Life On The Rock is an excellent resource.
 
I wonder how many Catholic Answers Apologists in this forum would answer this too 🙂
 
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Karl Keating and Pat Madrid are both Cradle Catholics. Jeff Cavins is a revert. His book My Life On The Rock is an excellent resource.
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I stand corrected. I thought I had checked this once to my satisfaction a while back. Guess I hadn’t.
 
Along with JPII and Ratzinger, I would add the following:

Shawn McElhinney (though he was a rad-trad before)
Mark Bonocore
Art Sippo
John Pacheco
Fulton J. Sheen
Karl Keating
Patrick Madrid
Frank Sheed (I think he was, Im not sure)
Phil Porvaznik
 
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Frank J. Sheed - (yes he was cradle)
Gary Michuta
Tom Monaghan
Steven Piskorowski Re-Vert
John Seaman Re-Vert
Dan Grajek re-vert
Joe Polgar
Fr. Mitch Pacwa
Fr. John Corapi re-vert
Jim Burnham
Matt Pinto

Last but not the least of great apologist’s:

My Great Aunt Nora - (b 1885 -d 1990) Need a bible, she had one. Need a priest, she could find you one.
Catholic devoted to spreading the faith. You bet! I think she taught Fulton Sheen a bit about it too. 😉
 
Uhmm, wasn’t St. Augustine a convert? I thought his mother St. Monica prayed for years for him to convert.

(Not to change the subject…)
 
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Uhmm, wasn’t St. Augustine a convert? I thought his mother St. Monica prayed for years for him to convert.

(Not to change the subject…)
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He fell into the Manichean heresy before he re-verted (?) back to the faith. His Confessions goes into detail on this.
 
Racer X:
Name a good Catholic apologist who is a cradle Catholic. I’m sure there are some but I’m just not familiar with any. Don’t say St. Augustine. 19th century or later please.

All of the following are converts.

Keating
Madrid
Hahn
Chesterton
Newman
Kreeft
Knox
Thomas Howard
Dave Armstrong (a great internet apologist. See ic.net/~erasmus/RAZINDEX.HTM )

There’s also Father Richard John Neuhaus: not exactly an apologist, but often ends up defending Catholicism very well.

Is this why most Catholic apologetics is aimed at Protestants instead of non-Christians–because they’re all former Protestants?
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The late Frank Sheed was another​

 
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yinekka:
Frank Sheed was a convert and was born in Australia. 🙂
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Yes, and No, and yes! 😃

It is confusing. Even most articles cannot decide but I think these two clear up the confusion. FRank seems to have considered himself a cradle Catholic.
Catholic Exchange:
Although he was a cradle Catholic, Sheed was a central figure in what he called the “Catholic Intellectual Revival,” an influential and loosely knit group of converts to the Catholic Faith, including authors such as G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Arnold Lunn, and Ronald Knox.
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Crisis Magazine:
Francis Joseph Sheed was born on March 20, 1897, in Sydney, Australia. His father, John Sheed, sprang from a long line of Scottish Presbyterians. John was a blue-collar worker with a bottomless thirst for ale. Frank’s mother, the former Mary Maloney, was Irish Catholic. By all accounts, she was a loving and devoted mother to her two sons, Jack and Frank. The religious issue between her and John remained always at a stalemate. His antipathy toward Rome never abated, while she remained a loyal, devout Catholic. John insisted the boys be raised Protestant.

Although raised as a Methodist by his Protestant relatives, Frank developed early on a private sympathy for Catholicism, sacraments and all. Then one day, he openly declared himself a Catholic. Naturally, this pleased his Irish-Catholic mother immensely and horrified his Protestant aunts and cousins.
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Protestant Father - Catholic Mother
 
How about Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio? I think he’s a cradle Catholic
 
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AmandaPS:
He fell into the Manichean heresy before he re-verted (?) back to the faith. His Confessions goes into detail on this.
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Guess it’s time for me to finally bring this book to the top of my “to read” pile.
 
Cardinal Arinze is a convert from a local African religion.
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I don’t think so, unless he converted as a young child. This from the Thomas Aquinas College commencement program where Cardinal Arinze said mass and spoke:

“A native of Nigeria, Arinze was baptized into the Faith at the age of nine by his parish priest, the first Nigerian to be beatified, Blessed Michael Tansi.”
 
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