p/c University of Notre Dame.>Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into American Catholic parishes. This news has been covered by both religious outlets as well as secular ones.>Many of these conversions are in unlikely places, like New York City. NCR/EWTN recently reported on a Dominican parish in lower Manhattan serving NYU: “88 people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation at the Easter vigil this year.” Part of this was due to current events: “Many of those coming into the Church, he said, have told him that conservative Christian influencer Charlie Kirk’s murder had a huge effect on them.”

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