Dioceses See Growth in Converts to Catholic Faith This Easter
Welcome Home: Many Dioceses See Sharp Growth in Converts to Catholic Faith This Easter
For the Burns family, the path to the Catholic Church this Easter vigil started with a funeral.
Steve Burns, 43, a mechanical engineer who lives in Avon Lake, Ohio, was raised a Free Methodist. His wife, Corrine, 42, a homemaker who worked for years in a wholesale greenhouse, was raised a Catholic but stopped going to Catholic church when she was an adolescent. Their son Ryan, 12, hasn’t been baptized.
But when Corrine’s beloved Uncle Tony died in March 2023, she attended his funeral Mass and immediately felt at home.