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‘Thanks be to God!’: Notre Dame student’s family converts on solemnity of the Assumption

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The Smith family at the motherhouse for the Nashville Dominican sisters on the solemnity of the Assumption, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Colin Smith

A student at the University of Notre Dame revealed this month that his entire family converted to Catholicism on the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15 — a blessing he attributes to God “trouncing Satan at every turn.”

Colin Smith, who is studying political science and theology at Notre Dame, said on X that “on the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, my whole family came into the Catholic Church.”

The family’s conversion occurred three years after Smith himself came into the Church, he said. The family attended multiple Protestant churches over several years when Smith was younger, he told CNA this week.

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