{"id":81801,"date":"2026-03-29T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81801"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:45:07","slug":"somethings-happening-catholic-converts-surge-in-many-u-s-dioceses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/somethings-happening-catholic-converts-surge-in-many-u-s-dioceses\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Something\u2019s Happening\u2019: Catholic Converts Surge in Many U.S. Dioceses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> National Catholic Register:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/pb-ncregister\/swp\/hv9hms\/media\/20260327140352_c33b6ca054bc9a892b6902089d98891f8a7ce10ee1b4a002982db70f5034008e.jpg\" alt=\"A look at the Top 10 Percentage Increases In Converts\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" data-media-id=\"editor_0\" data-image-id=\"20260327140352_c33b6ca054bc9a892b6902089d98891f8a7ce10ee1b4a002982db70f5034008e\" data-rendition-name=\"original\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many U.S. dioceses are expecting heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church at Easter 2026, including some with record highs, a survey by the Register found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething\u2019s happening,\u201d said John Helsey, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, which is expecting a 57% increase in unbaptized people becoming Catholics at Easter \u2014 from 635 in 2025 to nearly 1,000 in 2026.\u00a0\u00a0In most places, this year\u2019s increases aren\u2019t a one-off but follow significant increases in recent years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774773907\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"\u2018Something\u2019s Happening\u2019: Catholic Converts Surge in Many U.S. Dioceses\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From National Catholic Register: Many U.S. dioceses are expecting heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church at Easter 2026,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}