American dioceses welcomed significantly more converts this Easter, with the average diocese reporting a 38 per cent increase in new Catholics compared with 2025, according to an analysis by the prayer app Hallow.
Of 71 dioceses surveyed by the National Catholic Register before Easter, only five expected a decline. The figures suggest that conversion numbers are now approaching pre-pandemic levels after several years of suppressed activity during and after Covid-19.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles led the largest metropolitan sees with a dramatic 139 per cent increase, receiving 8,598 people into the Church — 2,452 catechumens and 6,146 candidates. The archdiocese had already been on an upward trajectory, rising from 3,462 new Catholics in 2023 to 3,596 in 2024 and 5,587 in 2025. Officials said individuals had stated "it was God himself who brought them to their conversions", though the archdiocese acknowledged there was no single explanation for the scale of the increase.
