Songwriter John Michael Talbot talks about his conversion to Catholicism in 1978:

I stumbled onto a few things—Thomas Merton and then St. Francis of Assisi. I got into radical gospel living, mystical prayer, contemplative life, and they were all Catholic. I ended up with this idea of, let’s go back to the early church through which the Scriptures came and see if they had at least a substantial agreement on how to live, and then let’s apply that to our situation. When I did that, I was shocked to find the primitive expressions of what today we would call the Roman Catholic Church. I wasn’t looking to be a Catholic. I didn’t even like Catholics.

Here he performs Advent Suite, one of my favorites, and shows his guitar skills: