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I’d like to write a short essay for next years RCIA class and list famous people who have converted. I can only think of two, Larry Kudlow and Laura Engram. I know there must be a bunch of others. Would you please help.

Thanks in advance,

Bill
 
I guess it depends upon how you define ‘famous.’

For me, some famous converts would include:

John Henry Cardinal Newman
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Merton

Among those who are still alive, I guess that you might include the following:

Gov. Jeb Bush
Senator Sam Brownback
Robert Bork
 
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas-(Re-vert ?)
Norma “Jane Roe” McCorvey -The Roe in “Roe vs Wade”
St. Edith Stein,
Jacques Maritain,
Dorothy Day,
St. Elizabeth Seton,
Karl Stern,
Ronald Knox
 
On the thread “Catholic Celebrities” Karl Keating informed us of two:

Bob Hope and John Wayne.
 
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SeanG:
Senator Sam Brownback
Senator Sam Brownback is Catholic!? Wow…fascinating…I’m quite familiar with Senator Sam Brownback (part of it has to do with his involvement in some of the things I’m interested in), and I knew he was a Christian, but I had no idea he turned Catholic!

-Jason
 
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Bonvivant:
I’d like to write a short essay for next years RCIA class and list famous people who have converted. I can only think of two, Larry Kudlow and Laura Engram. I know there must be a bunch of others. Would you please help.

Thanks in advance,

Bill
Bill
What about the following:-
The Ex Communist from the British media,now deceased,
Malcolm Muggeridge
Oscar Wilde who spent time in a British prison for homosexual activity before he converted.
British politician,Ann Widdecombe,whose brother is still an
Evangelical.
I could mention others,but i am not absolutely certain if they are converts or reverts.
The above may not be as well known in the United States,but you would get information if you typed their names in your search engine.
 
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chosunhoon:
Senator Sam Brownback is Catholic!? Wow…fascinating…I’m quite familiar with Senator Sam Brownback (part of it has to do with his involvement in some of the things I’m interested in), and I knew he was a Christian, but I had no idea he turned Catholic!

-Jason
He and Bork came into the full communion of the Church through the ministry of Fr. C. John McCloskey.
 
C.S. Lewis never became Catholic. Chesterton did. Of course you must include Cardinal Newman.

Jeb Bush is a recent convert and rumor has it that after this election GWB may come home as well. Apparently Jeb has become quite the Catholic apologist in his family.

The part about him being a convert is true. The rest is just certainly in the class of “rumor” so treat it as such.
 
Israele Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome (baptised as Eugene Zolli, Feb. 13, 1945)
 
I have heard reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair may convert to Catholicism. Mrs. Cherie Blair, Tony’s wife, and their four children are all Catholic. I hope I am not just spreading a rumor. Please correct me if I am not correct. The story I heard was that Blair would only convert after he concludes his service as PM. Perhaps he does not want to cause a constitution crisis. I hope forum members that reside in the United Kingdom will address list last statement.

Please advise.

Thanks.
 
Bud Stewart:
I have heard reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair may convert to Catholicism. Mrs. Cherie Blair, Tony’s wife, and their four children are all Catholic. I hope I am not just spreading a rumor. Please correct me if I am not correct. The story I heard was that Blair would only convert after he concludes his service as PM. Perhaps he does not want to cause a constitution crisis. I hope forum members that reside in the United Kingdom will address list last statement.

Please advise.

Thanks.
Were Mr. Blair to convert while prime minister, there would be no constitutional crisis. The problem arises with the monarch, not the prime minister. By law the monarch, who is the head of the Church of England, may not be a Catholic. There is no similar restriction on the prime minister.
 
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Bonvivant:
I’d like to write a short essay for next years RCIA class and list famous people who have converted. I can only think of two, Larry Kudlow and Laura Engram. I know there must be a bunch of others. Would you please help.

Thanks in advance,

Bill
Um… Who are Larry Kudlow and Laura Engram?

I must be living under a rock.

:whacky:
 
Larry Kudlow and Laura Ingram (correct spelling) are both American writers.

Mr. Kudlow is an economist. Ms. Ingram writes social commentaries. Both can be properly titled conservative in their respected fields. Each of these authors has been featured on Fox News Channel (“FNC”). FNC is a “24-hour” news cable television station here in the United States. I viewed your member profile and I could not determine where you reside, hence my reference to the U.S. 🙂
 
Larry Kudlow is the co-host of the news/business show " Kudlow and Cramer" on CNBC.

Bill
 
Re: Mr. Kudlow, thanks Bill for the additional note of clarity.

Mr. Kudlow is indeed an economics author, but being on a competing television network he is not featured on FNC, as I mistakenly said. I know that some of the FNC on-air guests have featured portions of his commentaries.

Thanks
Bud
:rolleyes:
 
Karl Keating:
Were Mr. Blair to convert while prime minister, there would be no constitutional crisis. The problem arises with the monarch, not the prime minister. By law the monarch, who is the head of the Church of England, may not be a Catholic. There is no similar restriction on the prime minister.
It would not bring about a constitutional crisis, but perhaps a political one. I believe that there has never been a Catholic PM, at least as that office has emerged over the past, say, three to four hundred years. There certainly could not have been one before Catholics were allowed to vote in the 1830s.

In any case, if there have been one or more Catholic PMs, there has certainly not been one for quite a while.

I remember having a conversation with an English monk about five years ago when he speculated that Chris Patton, the former (and, I believe, last) British governor of Hong Kong, could become the first Catholic PM in quite a while.

However, in the end, I’m not sure what this reply has to do with the original question of the thread since I do not know whether or not Patton is a convert.
 
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