My Conversion Story
- Rommel Santos
- Oct 1, 2024
- 1 min read
Our Sunday Visitor (March 2015). In a series of stories about conversion, my story of returning to the faith was included
My conversion was catalyzed by a Franciscan priest who refused to absolve a sin I confessed. “It’s not your sin to confess,” he insisted, clearing the way, over thirty years ago for my return to Catholicism. He was the first Christian witness to my innocence as a victim of child abuse by clergy.
Like most victims, my love for God was steadfast. I believed in God’s sovereign and wondrous identity, but that made His apparent abandonment of me to abusers even worse. What could I conclude except that I was worthless to Him? My recovery would require me to reject all such lies planted by abusers in my psyche and to claim, instead, my dignity as a child of God.
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