Blue Chippers

From a review of Good News, Bad News: ­Evangelization, Conversion, and the Crisis of Faith by C. John McCloskey III and ­Russell Shaw in the November FIRST THINGS (sub req):

"Have you ever thought of becoming a Catholic?" That is the question more of us should be posing. Or so argue C. John McCloskey and Russell Shaw in their new book. McCloskey, a Wall Street analyst turned Roman Catholic priest (of Opus Dei), and Shaw, a Catholic journalist and former communications director for the U.S. bishops' conference, propose a plan for Catholic renewal based on the personal apostolate of the lay faithful. Drawing from his experience as Washington's "convert maker"--notably credited with the conversions of Bernard Nathanson, Sam Brownback, Lawrence Kudlow, Laura Ingraham, Alfred Regnery, and Robert Novak--McCloskey peppers the book with the first-person written conversion accounts of those he's led into the Church. The result is a how-to guide for a Catholic apostolate--a word, the authors fear, that many Catholics don't know.

Not a bad recruiting class, eh? I wonder if McCloskey would be as effective in bringing wayward sheep back to the Church as he is at landing new talent.