{"id":86138,"date":"2026-09-05T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86138"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:38:26","slug":"why-so-many-women-are-converting-to-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-so-many-women-are-converting-to-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So Many Women Are Converting To Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Religion News Service:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/webRNS-Virgin-Mary2-121820.jpg\" alt=\"Why so many women are converting to Catholicism\u00a0\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ask an evangelical what separates them from Rome, and they\u2019ll likely mention Mary. Ask a Catholic convert why she crossed over, and she might say the same thing. Nothing divides evangelical Protestants from Catholics quite so visibly as Mary.<\/p>\n<p>But beneath that divide lies deeper questions about authority, tradition, worship and what it means to belong to the Church.\u00a0\u00a0Over the past year as a writer and podcast host, I\u2019ve spoken extensively with Protestant women who converted to Catholicism, as well as academics and those studying the forces behind this shift.\u00a0 \u201cCatholicism is one of the few religions that respect and revere women,\u201d Genileigh Wentworth, a 37-year-old convert, told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Religion News Service: Ask an evangelical what separates them from Rome, and they\u2019ll likely mention Mary. Ask a Catholic.<\/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-86138","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\/86138","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=86138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86139,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86138\/revisions\/86139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}