Conrad Black
Broadcaster and commentator
Conrad Black, 78, is a Canadian-born British businessman who, in the 1990s, built Hollinger International which was once the world’s third-largest English-language newspaper empire. Although Canadian, Black’s brilliant and prolific US journalism and books make him an honorary literary citizen. Raised in an atheistic family, it took time for Black to find his faith. He explained that he “approached Rome at a snail’s pace” until he was eventually received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1986 by Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter. In 2001, Black was invested as a knight commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great, a papal order of chivalry awarded by Pope John Paul II.
