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Four years after his own conversion to Catholicism, Colin Smith welcomed his whole family into the faith.
The Smith family (L to R: Andrew, Abby, Beth, Byron and Colin) smiles together at the motherhouse for the Nashville Dominican sisters on the Solemnity of the Assumption 2024; Colin is at far right. (photo: Courtesy of Colin Smith)
University of Notre Dame student Colin Smith didn’t expect the story of his family’s conversion to Catholicism, which he shared on X, to go viral.
“I am at a loss for words!” he wrote in one post. “It has been surreal to watch our story blow up and to be shared by so many Catholic heroes of mine.”
Raised a devout evangelical Protestant, Smith converted to Catholicism before beginning his freshman year at Notre Dame. After his conversion, Smith wrote hundreds of letters to his parents and two younger siblings explaining the theological reasoning of his faith.
Four years later, his parents, Beth and Byron, and siblings, Abby and Andrew, entered the Catholic Church on Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, at the St. Cecilia Motherhouse for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tennessee.
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University of Notre Dame student Colin Smith didn’t expect the story of his family’s conversion to Catholicism, which he shared on X, to go viral.
“I am at a loss for words!” he wrote in one post. “It has been surreal to watch our story blow up and to be shared by so many Catholic heroes of mine.”
Raised a devout evangelical Protestant, Smith converted to Catholicism before beginning his freshman year at Notre Dame. After his conversion, Smith wrote hundreds of letters to his parents and two younger siblings explaining the theological reasoning of his faith.
Four years later, his parents, Beth and Byron, and siblings, Abby and Andrew, entered the Catholic Church on Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, at the St. Cecilia Motherhouse for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tennessee.
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This Notre Dame Student Wrote Hundreds of Letters to Convince His Family to Become Catholic. It Worked.
Four years after his own conversion to Catholicism, Colin Smith welcomed his whole family into the faith.
