Tag: Conversion

I was baptised, confirmed and received my first Holy Communion at Easter shortly before engaging in the Sacrament of Marriage. That was a month I will never forget.

As Kylie Beatson stood in front of a packed Moorebank parish with her husband Shane and two youngest teens, about to enter the Catholic Church, she couldn’t help but joyfully ponder on the journey that led her there. This Joy was more than a feeling; it was a bookend to her conversion story that began as a seed in the Great Jubilee of 2000 and eventually came to fruition in the most unexpected way in the Jubilee Year of Hope in 2025.

I’ve been thinking a lot about two things: travel and the need for conversion. I don’t mean the repentance that comes when you think your plane is going to crash. It’s more like the “journey of life” concept, writes Philippa Martyr.

From Eastern Orthodoxy to Pentecostalism to Catholicism, Alex Limneos has found his spiritual home and is now helping the next generation of young Catholics find theirs.

Nearly 300 catechumens seeking baptism and candidates hoping to be received into full communion, were presented to Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP on 18 February at the Rite of Election at St Mary’s Cathedral.

Former Freemason Gabriel Donleavy found himself drawn to the Catholic Church's beauty and the goodness of its members

Marinko Crnjac always chose rebellion over religion, until he was on his deathbed. Then something unexpected happened: “I saw Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and I felt like my soul had left my body and passed through purgatory and its suffering souls."

Joelle Maryn had the world at her feet. Poised on a Hollywood rooftop before cameras and lights, in an elaborate gown worth thousands of...

The effort of Jewish converts to bring other Jews into the Church has a long history, going back to the early Church, Fr Flader explains

While Christianity has been at the root of many aspects of Western culture, and many of the social institutions that emerged from this Christian...

54 years after his death, Padre Pio works another wonder in Hollywood actor’s life Hollywood Actor Shia LaBeouf has opened up about his conversion to...

'Turn on, tune-in and drop out' they said in the 60s. James Orrock tried that - but still found himself searching A long, long time ago...