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"..Lots of other prominent Catholics were there, such as columnist and speechwriter Peggy Noonan, herself a convert,,,"

Is Peggy Noonan really a convert? Can anyone confirm this? I can find no reference to her conversion on the web.

[TontoKowalski]

Hot-diggety-dog!

A post on what should be good news is now turned into a back-and-forth between Catholics and Protestants! The flames should be coming soon.

If only there were some mention that Bork was a Mason or a Knight of Columbus, then the action could really get going!

[nickcarraway]

Peggy Noonan is Catholic, but I don't know if she is a convert. Her articles frequently talk about Catholicism, especially Our Lady of Guadalupe.

[BlackElk]

Peggy Noonan was born to an Irish Catholic family in New York and presumably baptized as an infant. She may well have fallen away from the Church in that she married a divorced man while working as a speechwriter for Ronaldus Maximus. That was a short-lived and only marriage for her. You can read further details in her first book: What I Saw at the Revolution.

Since the birth of her son she has certainly been a very devout Catholic and often writes the details in her Wall Street Journal column and elsewhere. Since she never practiced another religion and was a cradle Catholic, she is not a convert. We Catholics are delighted to share this Church with her in any event.

[Cincinna]

"..Lots of other prominent Catholics were there, such as columnist and speechwriter Peggy Noonan, herself a convert,,,"

Is Peggy Noonan really a convert? Can anyone confirm this? I can find no reference to her conversion on the web."

Peggy is an Irish Catholic, born and raised. She did say she converted..... from a Liberal Dem to a Conservative during Ronald Reagan's first term

This thread was is OPUS DEI which has been mentioned as a great influence on Pope John Paul II and constituted his closest advisors and inner circle. The Pope was the personal patron of OPUS DEI.

Will this affect the choiuce of the new Pope?