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Eucharist, unity, clarity: What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?

April 24, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A young woman is baptized at the 2024 Easter Vigil at St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M. / Credit: Courtesy of St. Mary’s Catholic Center, Texas A&M

Boston, Mass., Apr 24, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Zack Short was kneeling during ador… […]

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Former porn actress embraces Catholic faith after trip to Italy that changed her life

April 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bree Solstad, a young woman who previously produced and acted in the pornography industry, is among the adult converts who entered the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil this year on March 30, 2024. / Credit: Miss B Converted in X

ACI Prensa S… […]

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From hatred to love: Christmas reflections of a Muslim convert to Catholicism

December 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Zubair Simonson, OFS, is a convert who was raised Muslim. / Credit: The Journey Home/EWTN Global Catholic Network

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).
Christmas is a time of reconciliation. God himself chose to become a man, coming … […]

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Germany denies refuge to Christian convert from Iran

August 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

European Court of Human Rights. / CherryX/wikmedia. CC BY-SA 3.0

CNA Newsroom, Aug 12, 2022 / 04:05 am (CNA).
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the case of an Iranian convert to Christianity, who is appealing his deportation from… […]

Interview

Marcus Grodi reflects on trends in conversions, and the mystery of grace

March 30, 2018 Jeanette Flood 6

Catholic reverts, Protestant ministers, Muslims, Jews, atheists and agnostics – the host of “The Journey Home” discusses the reasons people from all different faith backgrounds […]

The Dispatch

London’s Church of the Most Precious Blood is a thriving and diverse ordinariate-run parish

March 20, 2018 Joanna Bogle 12

The pews are filled with a mix of Londoners that includes West Indians, French-speaking Africans, Ethiopians, Poles, Filipinos—and Irish and English. […]

The Dispatch

Musings on the gift and grace of conversion

August 9, 2017 Carl E. Olson 20

“A convert is undeniably in favour with no party; he is looked at with distrust, contempt, and aversion by all. His former friends think him a good riddance, and his new friends are cold and […]

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