One of my favorite programs on EWTN is The Journey Home. It’s hosted by Marcus Grodi, formerly a Presbyterian pastor, and each week a great variety of people tell the story of how they ended up Catholic. The guest at the most recent episode was a Californian, one Fr. Jerry Brown (no). Born into a family who practiced no religion, Fr. Brown came to faith more or less despite his background. When, as a young man, he mentioned to his father that someday he thought he might become a Catholic, his father’s response was “over my dead body.” He eventually ended up an Episcopalian, ordained, married, children, divorced. Finally, in a rather circuitous manner, he ended up in the Catholic Church and eventually found himself in Seminary to become a Catholic priest, which is where CSL & B16 come into play. During his Seminary days in the San Francisco archdiocese, Cardinal Levada was the Cardinal Archbishop. And one day the Cardinal brought to the Seminary one then-Cardinal Ratzinger, as sort of a guest speaker. As part of the day’s events each Seminarian had a chance for a photo op session with Cardinal Ratzinger. Most of these events lasted a short time, three, four minutes. But when Fr. Brown told Cardinal Ratzinger that he had been an Episcopal clergyman, the Cardinal asked if he had read C. S. Lewis, to which Fr. Brown responded that he had read practically everything the man ever wrote. Their tete-a-tete last fifteen minutes, and the future B16’s final words were, “He was a great man.”