Raised agnostic, Aria Cabot figures she set foot in a church fewer than 20 times growing up. For her undergraduate degree, she chose Smith College, a “progressive, feminist” school, as she puts it, in Northampton, Mass.
That’s why some of her friends are now a bit puzzled. “They say, ‘Whoa, I didn’t expect this from you,’” said Cabot, 29, a graduate student at UW-Madison.
This weekend, Cabot is joining the Catholic Church. In the Catholic tradition, adult converts are welcomed every year at Easter, a time of rebirth and renewal for all Christians as they mark the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion.