Buffalo, N.Y., Jun 8, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Pro-life activist and former evangelical Christian pastor Paul Schenck converted to Catholicism in February and is now researching whether he can join the priesthood, even though he is married and has eight children, reported Buffalo News.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Schenck led protests and attempted blockades of abortion clinics in Western New York, with his twin brother, Robert, being arrested, fined, and even charged with perjury.
He left New York in 1994 to become the director of the American Center for Law and Justice in Virginia Beach, Va. He moved again in 1997 to the Washington, D.C., area.
But it was in 2000 that Schenck began contemplating a conversion to Catholicism. As a guest of the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, he participated in the Pope’s pilgrimage from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, reported Buffalo News.