On an Acclaimed Atheist Poet Converting to Catholicism

"'If you're there, you have to help me.'

"Those are the words that poet Sally Read said to an icon of Jesus in 2010. Read, a British poet and atheist, had stopped into a church in Santa Marinella, Italy. She felt burdened. Her young daughter was having health issues. Her husband Fabio was enduring some stress at work.

"'There was this incredible experience where this presence almost came down, and my tears just stopped, just dried,' Read tells CNSNews.com. 'I felt almost physically carried up. It was as if someone walked into the room. I knew this person. I knew that I was a Christian.'

"Up to that point Read, now 46, had been an atheist. . . ."

A CNS News report profiled Ms. Read and her conversion to Catholicism.

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CNSNews: Acclaimed Atheist Poet Becomes Catholic: 'My Tears Just Stopped' (30 NOV 16)