List Of Catholic Converts
The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals who converted to Catholicism from a different religion or no religion. Converts A * Hank Aaron: American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976; regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He and his wife first became interested in the faith after the birth of their first child. A friendship with a Catholic priest later helped lead to Hank and his wife's conversion in 1959. He was known to frequently read Thomas à Kempis' 15th-century book '' The Imitation of Christ'', which he kept in his locker. * Greg Abbott: 48th Governor of Texas * Creighton Abrams: U.S. Army General, converted while commanding US forces in Vietnam * Vladimir Abrikosov: Russian who became an Eastern-rite priest; husband to Anna Abrikosova * Anna Abrikosova: Russian convert to Eastern-rite Catholicism who was imprisoned by the Soviets * John Adams: b ...
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Religious Conversion
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others. Thus "religious conversion" would describe the abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another. This might be from one to another denomination within the same religion, for example, from Baptist to Catholic Christianity or from Sunni Islam to Shi’a Islam. In some cases, religious conversion "marks a transformation of religious identity and is symbolized by special rituals". People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and forced conversion. Proselytism is the act of attempting to convert by persuasion another individual from a different religion or belief system. Apostate is a term used by members of a religion or denomination to refer to so ...
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