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“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.”<\/div>\n

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— America’s most famous recent convert to Catholicism, Newt Gingrich<\/a>,
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