Denver, Colo., Mar 24, 2005 / 22:00 pm
One year before, she would have kept walking. But last fall, when 22-year old Dixie Ross saw the table advertising Catholic Bible studies in the University of Colorado Student Union, something made her stop.
Raised Baptist in Louisiana, Ross will join over 2,000 others in the Archdiocese of Denver who will be received into the Catholic Church at this year's Easter Vigil Mass.
In high school, Ross told CNA, she had bad experiences which made her write off religion altogether. Then she met "a wonderful married couple in Louisiana who adopted my son."
After giving it up for adoption, she said that the couple told her that they planned to raise her baby a Catholic. "I realized", she said, that "we agreed on a lot of things, and I began thinking about becoming Catholic myself."