ETS, Beckwith, and Evangelical

Just in case you have not heard, Francis Beckwith, this year’s President of the Evangelical Theological Society, surely the largest academic association of evangelical scholars, recently converted to Catholicism — the faith of his childhood. Now here’s my question: Do you think a Roman Catholic can be an “evangelical” or an Evangelical a “Roman Catholic”? Are these two terms mutually exclusive? Is the word “evangelical” appropriate only for Protestants?