re: #694 HappyWarrior
Was he originally Catholic? I thought he was Evangelical.
From Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge:
Raised a Methodist, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993.[21] He wrote widely in the Catholic press, but covering the Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, starting in 2002, led him to question his Catholicism,[1] and on October 12, 2006, he announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy