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Post by Account Deleted on Jun 5, 2017 9:18:11 GMT
Brendan Eich created key parts of the Web browser we use to view this site. He was pressured out of his position as CEO of Mozilla (the company behind Firefox browser) for his stance against gay marriage. It is suspected he is Catholic. It's a sad indictment (not to mention hypocritical) of Silicon Valley that Catholic's can only be so if they stay "in the closet": www.richleebruce.com/science/eich.html
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Post by assisi on Jun 5, 2017 13:52:09 GMT
Bob Hope, whose movies I used to watch and enjoy as a kid, converted to Catholicism in late life, partly due to his wife of many years Dolores who was a devout Catholic.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 23, 2018 23:00:28 GMT
Mildred Gillars, the German-American radio propagandist "Axis Sally", converted to Catholicism when in prison for treason after the war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_GillarsThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 6, 2018 21:18:12 GMT
This is a surprise: the film star Louise Brooks, best known for playing an iconic femme fatale in the German silent PANDORA'S BOX (showing at the IFI next week), converted to Catholicism in later life. Sadly, she subsequently lapsed - but perhaps the Little Flower, to whom she had a devotion, was there for her. catholicsaintsguy.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/the-divine-miss-brooks/
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Post by maolsheachlann on Sept 19, 2018 8:21:00 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 22, 2018 21:20:26 GMT
Frances Farmer, the "difficult" 1940s Hollywood actress whose mental hospitalisation (possibly encouraged by Hollwood mishandling) has attracted much publicity, became a Catholic in later life having been an atheist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 10, 2019 22:33:52 GMT
I never knew the author Jacques Kerouac considered himself a Catholic, although his life seems to have been rather anarchic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_KerouacKerouac found enemies on both sides of the political spectrum, the right disdaining his association with drugs and sexual libertinism and the left contemptuous of his anti-communism and Catholicism; characteristically, he watched the 1954 Senate McCarthy hearings smoking marijuana and rooting for the anti-communist crusader, Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 13, 2019 23:12:47 GMT
According to the Wikipedia entry on the comic character Judge Dredd, he is based on the De La Salle Brothers who taught at the original author's school. This may not be the best of advertisements for the De La Salle Order, as Dredd is the sort of person who will summarily execute you for dropping litter or crossing the street in the wrong place: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2019 14:20:32 GMT
I am impressed by Patrick Coffin's defence of interviewing Milo Yiannopoulos on his show: "While I thought Catholics were supposed to root for the lost sheep and the leper, according to some of my critics Milo’s job is to wear a pink leper badge and call out “unclean, unclean.” What happened to “every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”? Doesn’t Pope Francis constantly preach going to the peripheries and accompanying people non-judgmentally? It turns out, not all periphery dwellers are created equal. No, you have to be the right kind of pariah." www.patrickcoffin.media/why-am-i-interviewing-milo-yiannopoulos/
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Post by Young Ireland on Jan 22, 2019 21:18:49 GMT
I am impressed by Patrick Coffin's defence of interviewing Milo Yiannopoulos on his show: "While I thought Catholics were supposed to root for the lost sheep and the leper, according to some of my critics Milo’s job is to wear a pink leper badge and call out “unclean, unclean.” What happened to “every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”? Doesn’t Pope Francis constantly preach going to the peripheries and accompanying people non-judgmentally? It turns out, not all periphery dwellers are created equal. No, you have to be the right kind of pariah." www.patrickcoffin.media/why-am-i-interviewing-milo-yiannopoulos/That would only be valid if Milo had shown some sort of remorse for his activities and intention to cease such activities. This is the crux of the problem with proposals to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion, and it applies in this case too.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2019 22:02:51 GMT
I am impressed by Patrick Coffin's defence of interviewing Milo Yiannopoulos on his show: "While I thought Catholics were supposed to root for the lost sheep and the leper, according to some of my critics Milo’s job is to wear a pink leper badge and call out “unclean, unclean.” What happened to “every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”? Doesn’t Pope Francis constantly preach going to the peripheries and accompanying people non-judgmentally? It turns out, not all periphery dwellers are created equal. No, you have to be the right kind of pariah." www.patrickcoffin.media/why-am-i-interviewing-milo-yiannopoulos/That would only be valid if Milo had shown some sort of remorse for his activities and intention to cease such activities. This is the crux of the problem with proposals to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion, and it applies in this case too. He acknowledges they are wrong and does not seek to justify. Sadly he uses the same situation ethics as the Kasperites do in the case of adultery-- a lesser evil justifying a greater one (a "husband" rather than multiple partners, in his case). I agree this is untenable.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Jan 23, 2019 9:39:18 GMT
Has anyone heard of Milo Yiannopulous? Apparently he is a young English gay Catholic who is conservative, despite being the kind of fellow you would assume would be just the opposite (comes from a technology background, dyes his hair, etc.). I can't work out if he is actually orthodox, a practicing or a non-practicing homosexual, etc. or just something of a contrarian like Brendan O'Neill. www.channel4.com/news/soho-gay-mass-move-splits-gay-catholic-opinion(After watching a short debate he was in, I assume he is a practicing homosexual, or at least he was-- he mentions a 'dating history'.) I was re-reading this thread and surprised to see it documents my first encounter with Milo! (So to speak.) I know this because I say a couple of posts later that I'd never heard of him until that very day. I think he is a serious and deep thinker, whatever else one might say about him.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Mar 1, 2019 14:42:20 GMT
The actor Martin Freeman, who played Tim Canterbury in The Office, describes himself as a Catholic, though not "card-carrying", whatever that means. He's also a Corbynite, so make of that what you will. He's said in several interviews that he's the only person who knows who isn't an atheist.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 11, 2019 20:09:47 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Oct 10, 2021 21:10:30 GMT
This article on the early German film adaptation of DRACULA, NOSFERATU- A SYMPHONY OF HORRORS mentions that Bram Stoker's widow Florence converted to Catholicism in 1904 (which was before her husband's death) and became a regular at the Brompton ORatory. This surprises me slightly, since she came from an urban middle-class Protestant Dublin background which in the late Victorian era would have been more hostile to Catholicism than its English equivalent: www.crisismagazine.com/2015/nosferatu-and-the-triumph-of-the-immaculate-heartWasn't she once a fiancée of Oscar Wilde?
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