Surprised so-n-so was Catholic

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I get a kick out of it when Journalists claim to be Catholic but then spew out their totally anticatholic rheteric. Yeah right your about as Catholic as Luther was but as he was honest about where he stood.
 
CaptFun said:
It gets worse (i.e. better) Steve Nash and Pau Gasol are Catholic too. 😉

Surprised that Sir Alec Guinness was too. He seems so English (hence Protestant) but maybe the Guinness name should have steered me onto this.
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What’s interesting is that I’ve heard the Guinness brewing family (not related to Alec:)) were protestants. I assumed being Irish they were Catholic too.

Anyway, another kind of famous Catholic (don’t know if they practice though) are Greg and Doug McDermott. For those who don’t know, Greg is the coach of new Big East member Creighton, and his son Doug is a two time All American Basketball player.

I do think they practice though. My priest in college was a student when Greg McDermott coached at little old Wayne State College in Northeast Nebraska, and he saw him and his kids at Mass. I thought that was kind of cool. Makes sense that he’d be coach at a Catholic School too.
 
We should also mention Annette Funicello, a Catholic who died today.
I’m a Catholic, and I’ve always been a religious person, and having MS reminds me that there’s a higher power up there who knows what HE’s doing. MS has brought my family closer together, if that’s possible. Glen and I will do our errands together—go to the bank, the cleaners, the supermarket—and he’ll help me cook dinner. But I don’t like it when people say, “Oh, I’ll get that for you.” I need to walk, to do things for myself. I don’t want to be treated like an invalid.
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Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
 
OrdinaryMelkite said:
Moore may be Catholic by birth and ethnic identity, but he is NOT a legitimate Catholic by any standard. His actions and beliefs are in direct opposition to Catholic teaching. 👍

And Colbert may be Catholic, but is he a DEVOUT, PRACTICING Catholic? That is the question.
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I read that Colbert actually teaches a class at his parish. I heard a funny spiel he did on his show interviewing a former Catholic who said we don’t need priest. He wrapped it up by saying something about a book signing in Hell.
 
I am not sure Bradley Cooper is a practicing Catholic but this is what he said in an interview:
Bradley Cooper: I grew up Roman Catholic. I was baptized. I always loved the pageantry of it. A lot of it had to do with loving my father and looking at him wear his tweed blazer to Mass. I loved the way he prayed, so I would pray like he would. Not for any other reason than I wanted to be like my father—I wanted to be like Charlie Cooper. But in so doing, through the ritual of it, I started to have faith in God. Am I a spiritual person today? Yes. I don’t know how I could not be. It’s like saying, “Do you breathe?”
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General George S Patton JR was secretly baptized Catholic by the family’s Mexican house keeper because she feared he would die as infant before he was baptized at all.

I don’t think it took.
 
Suni_Moon said:
Dean Koontz is Catholic. 🙂
That one really threw me for a loop… But then I read one of his books.
And it made sense.
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I heard a really great interview with him on Catholic radio. I went right out to the library and got one of his books soon after that. He’s a great writer based on what I have read so far.
 
John Howard Griffin, the Texan journalist who wrote the classic book on 1960s race relations “Black Like Me” was a Catholic convert. He used vitiligo drugs and a sunlamp to darken his skin, shaved his head, and hitch-hiked and rode buses through the south in 1961, reporting on his experiences as a white man who was mistaken for a black man for Sepia magazine (later published as an award-winning book). He frequently made reference to his deep Catholic faith in the book. It was later made into a film where James Whitmore played Griffin.

Griffin, who also helped rescue Austrian Jews as an American member of the French Resistance in WWII, became a lay Carmelite in 1952, and wrote an authorized biography of his friend, the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, which was published posthumously after Griffin’s death from diabetes in 1980.
 
Coming from the Philippines, I can hardly think of any celebrity (as someone who works in the performing arts, sports, politics) who is a solidly devout Roman Catholic. It’s saddening to know that many of my what-could-have-been role models for the youth had been consumed by desire for fame, wealth, and even lustful glorification of themselves.
 
Chief Seattle, namesake for the city, was a devout Catholic as well as the leader of his people. Upon baptism, he took the name Noah Seattle, raised his children as Catholic, and received a Catholic funeral.

 
Here’s a Wikipedia link to a list of american Catholics, with references.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Catholics

Mickey Rourke was a surprise to me, but when I read how his faith turned his life around, I found it to be very inspirational. Same with Tom Sizemore.

I was also pleasantly surprised to find out that Sylvester Stallone is a practicing Catholic. Apparently, his movie Rambo (2008) has a strong christian message.
 
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