Is Pope Francis actually converting anyone to Catholicism<\/a>?\u00a0 The post is from November, 2014. But it\u2019s a good question.\u00a0 I mean,\u00a0he\u2019s all about the outreach.\u00a0 Is it working?\u00a0 Are people coming\u00a0back into the Church?\u00a0\u00a0Are they coming in for the first time? I\u2019m not saying they aren\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019m just\u00a0curious to see some numbers.\u00a0 \u00a0 If so, then that would be a good thing, or a great first step at least.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not as easy as it looks to find out, BTW.\u00a0 For every story I find saying \u201cCatholic conversions on the rise!\u201d, I can find as many saying \u201cCatholics leaving the Church\u201d, or \u201cCatholics converting to Islam\u201d.\u00a0 So I\u2019m curious if anyone has any ideas or figures to toss around.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Pope Francis actually converting anyone to Catholicism?\u00a0 The post is from November, 2014. But it\u2019s a good question.\u00a0 I mean,\u00a0he\u2019s all about the outreach.\u00a0 Is it working?\u00a0 Are people coming\u00a0back into the Church?\u00a0\u00a0Are they coming in for the first time? I\u2019m not saying they aren\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019m just\u00a0curious to see some numbers.\u00a0 \u00a0 If so, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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