Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Muslim Finds the Catholic Faith … Through Geography and Theology

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER: British soccer team owner and prominent philanthropist Ilyas Khan reflects on his conversion.

Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar was instrumental in helping Ilyas Khan, a British philanthropist and former Muslim, to become Catholic. But so too were many other distinctly Catholic influences, all amounting to a “pull” towards the faith rather than a “push” away from Islam.

Khan, a merchant banker by training and the owner of the Accrington Stanley soccer team, is also chairman of the prominent British charity Leonard Cheshire Disability — the largest organization in the world helping people with disabilities. In a revealing interview with Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, Khan explains in more detail what drew him to the Catholic Church. » | Edward Pentin | Tuesday, April 10, 2012