... opens up a bit to U.S. News & World Report about some of the reasons for his recent entrance into the Catholic Church:
That's part of what led to my conversion is the first time we [he and Callista] went to St. Peter's together. It's St. Peter's. I mean, you stand there and you think, this is where St. Peter was crucified. This is where Paul preached. You think to yourself, two thousand years ago the apostles set out to create a worldwide movement by witnessing to the historic truth they had experienced. And there it is. The last time we were there we were allowed to walk in the papal gardens and you get this sense that is almost mystical.
The moment that finally convinced me [to convert] was when Benedict
XVI came here [to the United States] and Callista in the church choir
sang for him at the vespers service and all the bishops in the country
were there. As a spouse, I got to sit in the upper church and I very
briefly saw [Benedict] and I was just struck with how happy he was and
how fundamentally different he was from the news media's portrait of
him. This guy's not a Rottweiler. He's a very loving, engaged, happy
person.
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