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(CP) A distinguished conservative political commentator has introduced that she has joined the Catholic Church, vowing to offer extra particulars about what led to her conversion sooner or later.
Candace Owens, a conservative political commentator who previously labored for The Daily Wire, took to X on Monday to announce that “Recently, I made the choice to go residence.” While she didn’t explicitly elaborate on what she meant in her submit, photographs accompanying her announcement present Owens standing subsequent to a Catholic priest at a Catholic Church.
“There is after all a lot extra that went into this determination and that I plan to share sooner or later,” Owens added. “But for now, reward be to God for His mild, however relentless guiding of my coronary heart towards Truth.”
Owens shared the Bible passage Isaiah 41:10: “So don’t concern, for I’m with you; don’t be dismayed, for I’m your God. I’ll strengthen you and allow you to; I’ll uphold you with my righteous proper hand.” She concluded her submit by proclaiming, “I don’t concern,” including, “Christ is king,” accompanied by a logo of the cross.
Many practising Catholics left feedback on Owens’ submit welcoming her into the Catholic Church. Pro-life activist Abby Johnson posted a response stating, “Welcome residence, Candace.”
Owens didn’t specify when the photographs have been taken, though it is attainable they have been captured throughout the Easter Vigil Mass the night earlier than Easter Sunday, which is among the most typical events the place new Catholics are baptized into the Church. The image was positively taken after March 9, when Owens responded to a query asking if she was Catholic by replying, “Almost there,” accompanied by a logo of the cross.
Catholic News World reported that the photographs featured in her submit documented the web character standing subsequent to Fr. Julian Large on the Brompton Oratory, described by the outlet as a “Latin mass group” in London, United Kingdom. The publication additionally famous that Owens is married to “a Catholic British activist and entrepreneur named George Farmer” who beforehand recognized as a Reformed Evangelical Protestant.
Owens’ social media submit revealing her conversion to Catholicism comes a month after her employment with The Daily Wire ended amid a months-long conflict with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro as a result of a disagreement between the 2 over Israel’s actions following the Oct. 7 terror assaults carried out by the phobia group Hamas. As many as 1,163 folks, together with 31 Americans, have been slaughtered that day, and round 240 folks have been taken hostage into Gaza.
Some of Owens’ critics derided as antisemitic her declare that Israel has dedicated “genocide” in opposition to Palestinians following the assaults.
While her conversion to Catholicism marks a brand new growth in her religious journey, Owens has regularly mentioned her Christian religion since getting into the general public enviornment in 2017. During a 2018 speech at Liberty University, she detailed how she strayed from her Christian roots, embraced alcoholism and suffered from anorexia after experiencing a childhood outlined by poverty, abuse and racial threats from classmates that prompted the FBI to open an investigation.
Owens additionally instructed that the viewers had an obligation to take part within the “tradition conflict” engulfing the United States: “I imagine in you. You can do it with out authorities handouts. You can do it based mostly off of fine concepts. You can do it based mostly off of laborious work. You can do it with Jesus Christ.”
“At the second that you simply imagine in your self, in the intervening time that you simply get again to your heart, that you simply align your self … with God, the universe will open itself as much as you. It actually did for me,” she stated.
More lately, Owens has warned that the time period “Christian nationalism” has been utilized in a “sinister” method as a part of an effort to place Christianity within the “identical vein as white supremacy.” She characterised the elevated use of the time period in widespread tradition as a brand new “try to divide and brainwash Christians, which is one thing that has gone on for many years.”
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