Some people approve of Catholic converts; others, like Austen Ivereigh, think they are neurotic.
Anyway, it's time for another world cup, once again to be conducted by Twitter (X) polls. There is room
for a few more nominations: the
conditions are that the convert (1) must be dead, and (2) must have converted in adultood (also, must be reasonably well known,
so don't nominate your great-aunt unless she's famous).
Let's keep things post-Reformation to avoid St Matthew, St Paul, or St Augustine of Hippo running away with the whole thing.
Also, my decision is
final.
Alec Guinness as GKC's Father Brown.
So far I have the following nominees:
Alec Guinness
Augustus Pugin
Avery Dulles
Buffalo Bill Cody
Claud McKay
Dorothy Day
Edith Nesbit
Edith Stein
Evelyn Waugh
Frederick William Faber
G.K. Chesterton
Gary Cooper
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Graham Greene
John Henry Newman
John Wayne
Malcolm Muggeridge
Mortimer Adler
Muriel Spark
Oscar Wilde
Robert Hugh Benson
Ronald Knox
Siegfried Sassoon
Thomas Merton
Buffalo Bill Cody
Nominations may be made by replying to this post, or to its advert on Twitter.
Catherine, Duchess of Kent
ReplyDeleteI will nominate John Senior and Edmund Campion.
ReplyDeleteI nominate Scott Hahn
ReplyDeleteStill alive!
DeleteDear Eccles.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your magnificent latest World Cup.
Presumably, Mr. Hitler would not be allowed into your list of nominees ?
I'd rather not, thank you.
DeleteA big NO to Thomas Merton! But yet to Fr. Faber and Msgr. Benson.
ReplyDeleteEccles,
ReplyDeleteFrancis Libermann, the second founder of the Spiritans, died 1852. And, Alphonse Ratisbonne, who died 1884.
John William Hunwicke
ReplyDeleteMichael Treharne Davies
ReplyDeleteDr Eric de Saventhem
ReplyDeleteMichael Davies gets my vote all the time.
ReplyDeleteDoc Holliday
ReplyDeleteBernard Nathanson, founder of NARAL, abortion advocate who renounced it and became Catholic.
ReplyDeleteKenneth Clark, narrated the excellent BBC series, Civilization.
Norman Lear, producer of All in The Family. He converted at the age of 100.
Fr Zuhlsdorf's (Fr Z) mom-she converted recently in hospice at 91 and died recently.
Roy Shoeman, Harvard Business School Professor and convert from Orthodox Judaism.
Malcolm Muggeridge, English media personality who placed an unknown Albanian nun by the name of Mother Theresa on his TV show,
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian intellectual and the author of The Medium is the Message.
Shoeman is still alive. I will take most of the others.
DeleteChristina, Queen of Sweden
ReplyDeleteBartolo Longo could be an interesting candidate.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting! But he is a revert not a convert (he was brought up as a Catholic) so I shall exclude him.
DeleteIs grate anti moly a cradle catholic or a convert? Oh wait, she still kicking, but we have not heard about her in a while. Anyway, Cornelia Connelly who died in 1879. And, there is Elizabeth Anne Seton who died in 1821.
ReplyDeleteI'll accept CC and EAS, but not Moly (wherever she is now).
DeleteOK, let's close the nominations here, with 55 names, so that I can start tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteEdith Stein alias Suor Teresa Benedetta della Croce
ReplyDeleteYes, that's the one. She's on the list above.
ReplyDeleteBertrand Russell
ReplyDelete