Talk:List of converts to Catholicism

message: Added a bunch, took some out. Wallace Stevens conversion seems to have been on his deathbed and is fairly highly disputed. Personally I think it'd be good to limit this to people who's conversion was in least somewhat noted in their lifetime. Like Oscar Wilde was going in that direction years before his actual deathbed conversion. Also it's noteworthy now for a certain ironic element. (Contemporary Catholicism being stricter on homosexuality than contemporary Anglicanism) I put Laxness in as his years as a Catholic were well known and mentioned in most biographies of him. 
I put in some names of people that are seen solely as Catholics, but were in fact converts. In some cases they converted before they became noteworthy. I've considered putting Tolkien in, wasn't he originally Anglican?--T. Anthony 07:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: On further reading I wonder if I jumped the gun on Jing, he may've been born/raised a Catholic as Catholicism had been in China for generations at that point. Anyone know?--T. Anthony 02:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Neat additions from what I think is a newcomer. The articles on them make it a bit unclear when Griffiths, McLuhan, Pachman, and Vermeer became Catholic. I might add a bit on Griffiths and Vermeer to clarify that.--T. Anthony 13:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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message: What is the time frame of this article?  While one may not want to add Paul of Tarsus and other first Christians, where is Saint Augustine and Emperor Constantine?  -Acjelen 04:40, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. For a variety of reasons I think it'd be best to avoid people from before 1054 AD. For example Emperor Constantine is as much recognized as Orthodox as a Catholic. Outside of that I'm not sure.--T. Anthony 05:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
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message: For consistency reasons, this article should be reorganized by former religion.--Sefringle 03:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to do so.--T. Anthony 07:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: Someone should add the Osanna of Cattaro to the list... --PaxEquilibrium 00:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I've made a few, but one I'll mention is Elias Nelson Conway. According to the "Encyclopedia of Arkansas"
"At the height of the Know-Nothing era, Elias Conway attended some services of the Roman Catholic Church and was enthusiastically criticized for it in the Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat. In suggestive terms, a commentary and poem of December 14, 1855, characterized Conway’s relationship with Johnson—“Miss Nancy Con-a-way” and “the organ grinder”—and implied that his association with the Catholic Church and Bishop Andrew Byrne might give Conway “false notions of ‘connubial felicity.’” This was possibly directed at Conway’s presumed sexual orientation. Conway never married, and he never joined a specific religious denomination."--T. Anthony 07:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to remove a great many references to get off spamblock. I might add some someday. Or others can.--T. Anthony 23:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: Title says Catholicism.  Text says Roman Catholicism.  Pick one.LeadSongDog 19:32, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the problem here. They are synonymous. I'm not Catholic, and although we refer to our church as being the "One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church", nobody is going to read Catholicism and suppose that it means Greek Orthodoxy (etc.). Catholic, in popular usage, is unambiguous, and Catholicism is even less so. I don't think your concern is really warranted.--C.Logan 20:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: There are a large number of people who convert to churches in the Anglican communion, sometimes from the RC church. But the process is not as vigorous, and some people, eg Margaret Thatcher, just drift in without being confirmed. Also Anglicans are less good at public relations and are not liable to make such conversions high profile. 
Having said that, I'll try to start an article and any contributions would be welcome. Ausseagull (talk) 09:47, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Converts to Anglicanism

message: Could someone please produce some evidence? Ausseagull (talk) 21:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/30th-november-2007/3/graham-greene-persuaded-me-to-become-catholic-says  She converted after reading Graham Greene's The End of the Affair.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.200.229 (talk) 00:45, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

text: Below you will find all the unreferenced items that I removed from the list, please re-add as reliable sources can be added.
User Ncboy is a self-proclaimed atheist and his actions are not based on policy, rather hate.
Many of the exclusions are famous converts, which Ncboy could annotate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.200.229 (talk) 00:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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message: Although I understand why it was cut back, man was it ever cut back! Some of the most famous converts, including saints and theologians, were taken off for a time there. (Maybe the person thought St. Edith Stein had always been Catholic?) But reviving it in full, exempting those who should have never been on it, is looking like a bigger job than I'm willing to do so I may stop now.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
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message: It's a denomination of Christianity so should be merge this page with this? List of converts to Christianity 2600:1700:12F0:2370:410F:9878:1050:FC99 (talk) 02:33, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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