Regarding John Wayne, no, I didn’t know. But for some reason I though that Patricia Neal was Catholic. And she was friends with Mother Dolores Hart and came on retreats to the monastery where Mother Hart was a member; perhaps that is why I thought it. Read Mother Hart’s autobiography: Ear to the Heart.
More importantly though, Did John Wayne become a Christian on his deathbed?
“Catholic” is no more equivalent to “saved” than “Baptist” or “Pentecostal” is.
I realize that we have all good saved Catholics and Protestants on these threads, but I have met so many lost Catholics (I was one for years) and lost Protestants through the years that church affiliation means nothing to me anymore as an evidence of salvation. Only one’s relationship with Christ matters.