Charlie Kirk would have been very close to becoming Catholicism before her death

The late conservative activist Charlie Kirk would have been seriously considering becoming a Catholic just before his murder, according to a bishop who spoke with him shortly before his death.

Robert Brennan, a writer based in Los Angeles and brother of the bishop of Fresno, California (United States), Mons. Joseph Brennan, he said in a September 18 column In the Archdiocesan newspaper Angelus Of Los Angeles that Kirk had a “personal exchange” with the Californian prelate approximately one week before his murder in the Utah Valley University, on September 10.

Robert Brennan, who said that Bishop Brennan gave him permission to share the story, said Kirk had spoken with the prelate at a prayer breakfast in Visalia. The conservative activist “told the bishop about his wife and Catholic children and how he attended Mass with them.”

Kirk recognized “speculation” about his possible interest in becoming Catholicism, Brennan wrote in Angelus; Later he told Bishop Brennan: “I’m so close” to become.

In its Angelus column, Brennan He referred to a recent video in which Kirk recognized having “great disagreements” with Catholicism, but argued that the Protestants “underestimate” the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“We are not talking enough of Maria. We do not venerate her enough,” Kirk said, arguing that Maria is “the solution” to “toxic feminism” in the United States.

“How appropriate that one of the last videos of Charlie Kirk treated about the mediator par excellence of all time and space,” Robert Brennan wrote in Angelus. “In his own way he was extending his hand to her, and now, I am convinced, she is answering the favor.”

Kirk was shot dead while answering questions from the attendees during a scale of his “American Comeback Tour” at the Utah Valley University. His wife, Erika Frantzve, his 3 -year -old daughter and his 1 -year -old son survive.

Prominent Catholics worldwide have joined the sorry voices for Kirk’s death in the days after the murder. The German cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller referred to Kirk this week as “a martyr of Jesus Christ” and condemned the “satanic celebration” of his death by some of his detractors.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action and close friend of Kirk, declared on September 13 that the death of the activist “will be a turning point” for the country.

For his part, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, affirmed that Kirk’s activism “restored optimism about the future of the United States for millions of Americans.”

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.