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Converting to familiar faith

byStaff writers
24 November 2002 - Updated on 16 March 2021
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This week’s People story is on Oscar Jones (pictured), who after converting to Catholicism at age 66, believes praying to the Virgin Mary has helped ease the pain of both his arthritis and Parkinson’s disease.

For the full story, see this week’s print edition of The Catholic Leader.

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