{"id":84421,"date":"2026-07-14T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84421"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:20:08","slug":"catholic-fun-fact-legendary-notre-dame-football-coach-knute-rockne-was-raised-lutheran-but-converted-to-roman-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/catholic-fun-fact-legendary-notre-dame-football-coach-knute-rockne-was-raised-lutheran-but-converted-to-roman-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Fun Fact: Legendary Notre Dame Football Coach Knute Rockne Was Raised Lutheran But Converted To Roman Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Catholic Fun Fact: Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne was raised Lutheran but converted to Roman Catholicism on November 20, 1925. He was baptized by the Reverend Vincent Mooney, C.S.C., in the Log Chapel on the University of Notre Dame campus.<br \/>\nRockne was profoundly\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OXPVgcwT8Y\">pic.twitter.com\/OXPVgcwT8Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dei gratia (@DeiGratia64) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeiGratia64\/status\/2076631772368937012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Fun Fact: Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne was raised Lutheran but converted to Roman Catholicism on November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84422,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84421\/revisions\/84422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}