 It is award-winning and has had over two million visitors.He has written over 18 books, including "The Catholic Answer Bible".Raised as a Methodist in Detroit, Michigan, Armstrong converted to non-denominational, Arminian evangelicalism in 1977, with strong affinities to the Jesus Movement and Messianic Judaism, and then to Catholicism in 1990, largely as a result of reading John Henry Cardinal Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine".