Learning to love Pope Francis strengthened my faith

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I became Catholic as an adult catechumen, unbaptized and unschooled in the sacraments. Each time someone learns this, I get the same question: “How did that happen?”

They’re usually seeking the argument that clinched my conversion — either to bolster their own belief or to probe mine. On the rarer occasion, they want to talk me out of it.  

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