Surprised so-n-so was Catholic

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Point taken, plus I don’t know any of these people personally and who really knows, further Wikipedia isn’t necessarily the most legitimate reference resource. 🙂

From what I’ve seen of the show though, I’ve felt he was reverent to the teachings of the Church. I suppose on occasion it may not seem so when he (how should I put it) sensationalizes a particular teaching; almost as if he is against said teaching. I guess I took it as he was bringing it to light to “plant the seed” so to speak, but I could be wrong, it’s been known to happen from time to time. 😛

Peace.
 
Nancy Mekeon of “Facts on Life” fame. I don’t know is she is practicing these days, but during the tv series it was reported thet she and her family were granted a private audience with the pope. Pretty cool. 🙂
 
How about actor Jim Caviezel, star of “The Passion Of The Christ” and of the offbeat ABC drama “Person Of Interest”(now telecast on Tuesday nights on Channel Five in the UK)?

Terry
 
I didn’t know Joe Biden was Catholic until the talk about Paul Ryan.

Also, William Shakespeare may or may not have been Catholic. There’s a debate on if he was Anglican or Catholic
 
Razanir said:
I didn’t know Joe Biden was Catholic until the talk about Paul Ryan.

Also, William Shakespeare may or may not have been Catholic. There’s a debate on if he was Anglican or Catholic
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I believe Biden had considered the priesthood at one time.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Obi Wan Kenobi was a Roman Catholic.

Alec Guinness, actually. He converted to Catholicism after playing the part of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton’s crime-solving priest, in The Detective. He was so affected by the part that he began researching the Faith and converted. (So G.K. Chesterton, one of our greatest apologists, can claim yet another convert.) He later played a character based on Cardinal Mindszenty in The Prisoner, a movie about a bishop’s interrogation in a communist prison.

I listened to an audiobook of one of Guinness’s memoirs before I knew he was a Catholic, and was surprised to suddenly hear him talking about the importance of the Mass and receiving the Eucharist to his life, in between his discussion of different film roles he was working on.

Speaking of Prisoners, the late Patrick McGoohan, who starred in the TV series The Prisoner, as well as *Secret Agent *(*Danger Man *in the UK), as well as a lot of movies - Ice Station Zebra, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, Braveheart, Nine Lives of Thomasina (my daughter’s favorite movie about cats), Escape from Alcatraz, and showed up on Columbo frequently as Peter Falk’s foil, was a lifelong Catholic, married to the same woman until his death. He studied for the priesthood before deciding his vocation was in acting and marriage. I saw him a couple of times at Mass in Santa Monica. He frrequently starred in action roles, but refused to play scenes with excessive violence (his intelligence officer characters rarely carried guns) or sexuality, and turned down the role of James Bond when it was offered to him before Sean Connery for that reason.
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Sweet! Thanks for posting this. I’m a happy Geek Girl this morning. Just what I needed. :hug1:
 
Actually, I just found out today that Eugene Genovese and his wife converted to Catholicism and had their marriage convalidated in the Church.

Although their names don’t have the same appeal as Liam Neeson or Steven Colbert or Tom Hanks among academics their names are extremely well known.

ChadS
 
Doc. Henry Holiday, of Tombstone fame was a Catholic. Returned to the Church before his death in Glenwood, Colorado. His cousin Mattie was a nun. Sister Mary Melanie.
Mattie’s cousin, Margaret Mitchell wrote “Gone With The Wind”
 
Also, John Ford, the famous movie director of many John Wayne movies was Irish Catholic.
 
For college football fans who didn’t know, Bo & Carl Pelini are Catholic, as well as the Stoops brothers (Bob, Mike, & Mark).
 
I was surprised that Cary Elwes was Catholic and from a very Catholic family where apparently several of his relatives were prominent clerics. I just read about it today when looking up trivia on “The Princess Bride”. He was also an altar boy at the Brompton Oratory in London.
 
Sarabande said:
I was surprised that Cary Elwes was Catholic and from a very Catholic family where apparently several of his relatives were prominent clerics. I just read about it today when looking up trivia on “The Princess Bride”. He was also an altar boy at the Brompton Oratory in London.
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Kind of fitting that he played the role of the young JPII. 🙂
 
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