Lenten Season Converts Flock to Catholicism ; Archbishop Says Numbers Indicate Problems Receding

The Washington Times › March 01, 2004

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More than 1,100 residents of the District and five Maryland counties began their journey of faith to the Catholic Church at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception yesterday, the first Sunday of Lent.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, said the increasing number of new church members was an indication of some closure to the problems plaguing the Catholic Church in recent years.

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Lenten Season Converts Flock to Catholicism ; Archbishop Says Numbers Indicate Problems Receding

Those problems include the numerous sex-abuse cases that have tarnished the chu...

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