The best eight converts

Twitter polls don't seem to be working too well at present (maybe only 1 in 4 votes are recorded) but anyway, here are the last eight in the World Cup of Catholic Converts.The result of the final rounds will be recorded when we have them.

QUARTER-FINALS

Edmund Campion 80.0 v Elizabeth Ann Seton 20.0

Gerard Manley Hopkins 10.6 v John Henry Newman 89.4

Edith Stein 74.4 v Alec Guinness 25.6

Evelyn Waugh 28.2 v Gilbert Chesterton 71.8

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SEMI-FINALS

Edmund Campion 61.8 v Edith Stein 38.2

John Henry Newman 64.5 v Gilbert Chesterton 35.5

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THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF

Edith Stein 53.1 v Gilbert Chesterton 46.9

BRONZE medal for Edith, so all the medals will be taken by saints.

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FINAL

Edmund Campion 49.5 v John Henry Newman 50.5

In the end there was only one vote in it. GOLD for Newman, SILVER for Campion.

A happy reunion in Heaven.