IT MUST BE HARD FOR A CELEBRITY IN TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD TO BE AN ACTIVE, PRACTICING ROMAN CATHOLICS

Here is an excerpt from a longer article on Gary Sinise and his wife's conversion to Catholicism from Catholic News Service. You can read the full article HERE.

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For the next year, his wife was in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program. "We started going to Mass," Sinise said. "My wife was confirmed in Easter 2000. ... The following year that little church became a sanctuary, a place of great comfort" following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.

Oh, and "our kids started attending the school there," he added.

 

Sinise himself joined the church in 2010.

 

"I surprised my family. I'd gone through the confirmation classes and whatnot myself behind everybody's back and I didn't tell anybody that I was doing it," he said.

 

"On Christmas Eve 2010 I told the family I was taking them to dinner at Morton's Steakhouse and have Christmas Eve dinner," he said. "And on the way there, I pulled into the church, and everybody asked, 'What are we doing here?' I said come on in. We walked into the church. The priest was there, and he confirmed me. It was beautiful."