Nashville Catholic church embraces converts

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When she was growing up, Lori W. Caste decided not to get baptized.
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Her father was a lapsed Baptist, her mother a Jehovah’s Witness. She followed her mother to Sunday services, but drifted away when she entered her teens.
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As an adult, Caste went to different churches, but nothing stuck until her husband, Tim, a lifelong Catholic, encouraged her to explore the faith.
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The 44-year-old Caste will be baptized a Catholic during the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday at Christ the King Catholic Church on Belmont Boulevard.
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“Being at Christ the King is like being part of a big family,” she said.
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She is one of about 400 converts in the Diocese of Nashville who will join the church on Easter, a remarkable number for a relatively small diocese of 75,000. That’s one convert for every 187 Catholics.
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By contrast, Louisville, Ky., which has 200,000 Catholics, has 504 converts joining on Easter, or one for every 396 Catholics. Atlanta, which has around 800,000 Catholics, has 2,062 converts for the year, or about one for every 387 Catholics. In New York, which has 2.4 million Catholics, the ratio is one convert to every 1,500 Catholics.
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In Nashville, church officials attribute the high ratio of converts to a number of factors. Some have rediscovered their Catholic heritage, while still others say they’ve finally found a spiritual home in the church.
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Read more here: citizen-times.com/article/DN/20100315/NEWS06/3150349/Catholic-church-embraces-converts-Nashville-diocese-s-growth-rate-high
 
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