“I’m not talking about this much publicly, but let me just say that I found over the course of the last decade, attending the basilica … reading the literature, that there was a peace in my soul and a sense of well-being in the Catholic Church, and I found the Mass of conversion last Sunday one of the most powerful moments of my life.”

— America’s most famous recent convert to Catholicism, Newt Gingrich,
to Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday, April 5, 2009.