The pope baptizes a prominent Italian Muslim.
Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
No doubt this will lead to violence somewhere, as does anything that offends “the religion of peace.” But that’s no reason not to celebrate a soul coming home.
I wondered why a new convert baptism was news, but I see I didn’t have the whole story.
May his tribe increase!