Many Muslims who aspire to convert to Christianity sometimes feel abandoned. As the newly beatified Fulton Sheen wrote in his book World’s First Love, “[T]he missionary effort of the Church toward this group has been, at least on the surface, a failure, for the Muslims are so far almost unconvertible.” For those of the Islamic religion drawn to Catholicism, this apparent failure can produce a deep sense of despair. Stefan R, the head of the UK chapter of the St Nicholas Tavelić Network, who accompanies converts from Islam, says: “A consistent feature in the life of Muslim converts, regardless of whether they lived hundreds of years ago or today, is loneliness.” Ostracised from family, friends and community, converts can experience a form of abandonment that is difficult for those outside their situation to understand.