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Robert Bork: American jurist and unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court; converted to Catholicism in 2003; his wife was a former Catholic nun [56] Louis Bouyer: French theologian; converted to Catholicism in 1939; Jim Bowie: American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas ...
Former Catholics or ex-Catholics are people who used to be Catholic for some time, but no longer identify as such. This includes both individuals who were at least nominally raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and individuals who converted to it in later life, both of whom later rejected and left it, or converted to other faiths (including the related non-Roman Catholic faiths).
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Rabiah Hutchinson – "Matriarch" of radical Islam in Australia, born to a Sydney Presbyterian family; she later become a Baptist, then converted to Catholicism and eventually, to Sunni Islam. [13] Semei Kakungulu – Originally followed traditional African religion, then converted to Protestantism, Malakite Christianity, and finally Judaism.
Juan Andrés, Spanish Islamic scholar who converted to Catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work against Islam, the Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán; Juliana Awada (born 1974), Lebanese-Argentine businesswoman and First Lady of Argentina; Adi Kurdi – Indonesia actor convert to Catholic.
Mortimer J. Adler – American philosopher, educator, and popular author; converted to Catholicism from agnosticism, after decades of interest in Thomism [14] [15]; G. E. M. Anscombe – analytic philosopher, Thomist, literary executor for Ludwig Wittgenstein, and author of "Modern Moral Philosophy"; converted to Catholicism as a result of her extensive reading [16]
A list of well-known converts to various rites of the Catholic Church.See Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism for converts known to have become (Roman) Latin-rite Catholics or Category:Converts to Eastern Catholicism for converts known to have become various Eastern liturgical-rite Catholics.
This is a list of notable Anglican bishops who converted to the Catholic Church.. A broad definition of 'Anglican' is employed here, including churches within the Anglican Communion, but also those of the Continuing Anglican movement which formed following controversy over various actual or proposed theological and doctrinal reforms, such as the ordination of women.