Half and Half, part Catholic

Ben Affleck. His father is Protestant, his mother Roman Catholic.

Michael Caine. His father was Catholic, his mother Protestant.

Sean Connery, James Bond. Who knew? His father was Catholic, his mother Protestant.

Harry Connick Jr., father is Irish-Catholic, mother is Jewish.

Harrison Ford’s father was Irish Catholic. His mother was Russian Jewish.

Mae West. Her father was Irish Catholic. Her mother was Jewish. The family converted to Protestant.


Catholic Conversions

Gary Cooper converted to Catholic.

Faye Dunaway converted to Catholic.

Alec Guinness, Obi-Wan, is Catholic. Converted from Anglican.

Susan Hayward, converted to Catholicism when she was 47.

Bob Hope, converted to Catholicism near the end of his life.

Betty Hutton. Found religion after her fourth divorce. Converted to Catholicism and spent the last part of her years working as a cook at a rectory in Rhode Island.

John Wayne was Presbyterian his whole life, raised his children Catholic, then converted to Catholicism two days before he died.

Conversions FROM Catholic

Sonny Bono, half of Sonny & Cher, converted to Scientology

Tom Cruise, studied in a seminary, then converted to Scientology

Bernadette Peters, started Catholic, converted to Scientology

John Travolta started as Catholic, then switched to Scientology. Now he’s Oprah’s BF.

Studied for priesthood

Dan Akroyd went to a Catholic seminary school.

Peter Boyle studied to be a priest.

Tom Cruise was a Franciscan seminary student.

Roger Ebert was an altar boy

Alec Guinness for a while planned on becoming an Anglican priest before converting to Catholicism with his wife.

Anthony Quinn longed for the priesthood.

Spencer Tracy studied to be a priest.

Actors who went into a religious order

Dolores Hart gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss, then became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, ultimately becoming the Prioress of the Convent. She chants in Latin eight times a day.

Betty Hutton. Great as Annie Oakley. Found religion after her fourth divorce. Converted to Catholicism and spent the last part of her years working as a cook at a rectory in Rhode Island.

Actors who became world leaders

Ronald Reagan, became U.S. president

Karol Józef Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II

Actors you think are Catholic, but aren‘t

Julie Andrews, nominally Anglican, but says she has no real religion.

Charlton Heston, acted as Moses, Ben Hur…sure seemed Catholic!

James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, also recorded the King James Bible.

Hayley Mills, not raised Catholic, but appears in many Walt Disney movies as a wholesome little girl. We want her to be Catholic. She was originally cast as Lolita Haze in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film version of Lolita. Walt Disney memoed to Kubrick that he felt the role was not up to his wholesome standard, and the part eventually went to Sue Lyon.

 

 

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