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Taking on ‘Notre Dame, Our Mother’ in a New Way: Sociology professor becomes Catholic

Peter Kilpatrick, November 12th, 2010

What led sociology professor Christian Smith and his wife Emily to embrace the Catholic Church and convert from Protestantism this past April?  The richness, tradition, and authority of the Church, and, ultimately, the rational sense-making to weather the assaults of modernity! Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology here at Notre Dame and the Director of the [...]

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