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===John Wayne=== American actor and filmmaker [[John Wayne]], according to his son Patrick and his grandson Matthew Muñoz, who was a priest in the California [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange|Diocese of Orange]], converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] shortly before his death.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/John_Wayne.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119121939/http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/John_Wayne.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=19 November 2005 |title=The religion of John Wayne, actor |publisher=Adherents.com |access-date=October 20, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.osv.com/osvnewsweekly/byissue/article/tabid/735/artmid/13636/articleid/14534/everyone-called-him-duke-john-waynes-conversion-to-catholicism.aspx|title=Everyone called him 'Duke': John Wayne's conversion to Catholicism|website=Our Sunday Visitor Catholic Publishing Company|access-date=June 10, 2018|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612144020/https://www.osv.com/osvnewsweekly/byissue/article/tabid/735/artmid/13636/articleid/14534/everyone-called-him-duke-john-waynes-conversion-to-catholicism.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Muñoz stated that Wayne expressed a degree of regret about not becoming a Catholic earlier in life, explaining "that was one of the sentiment he expressed before he passed on," blaming "a busy life."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=9e13fe4d-3aac-4aec-abab-032cc267b317 |title=My granddaddy John Wayne |work=California Catholic Daily |first=David |last=Kerr |date=October 4, 2011 |access-date=October 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006041651/http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=9e13fe4d-3aac-4aec-abab-032cc267b317 |archive-date=October 6, 2011 }}</ref>
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