The assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk was reportedly close to becoming a Catholic at the time of his death, which included him considering the Virgin Mary as a solution to “toxic feminism” in the United States.

Robert Brennan, a Los Angeles-based writer and the brother of Bishop Joseph Brenna of Fresno, California, has written about how Kirk had a “personal exchange” with the Californian prelate about a week before the 31-year-old CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA was killed at Utah Valley University on 10 September, reports the Catholic News Agency (CNA).