In a short article published recently on The Catholic Thing website, the writer and Episcopal convert Charlotte Hays reflects on her long journey to Catholicism, which was guided in part by the positive example given her by the Dominicans.  She remembers in particular Fr. Raymond Smith, O.P., who instructed her in the truths of the Catholic faith.  At the time, Fr. Smith was prior of St. Dominic's Priory in Washington, DC.

Hays writes of Fr. Smith: "I was fortunate to have been given instruction and received into the Church by a wise and kind Dominican. Father Raymond Smith, O.P. was learned, generous, and a fine teacher. The Dominican Friar supplied my aesthetic needs, important to me (then, and, yes, now). Who, I wondered, converts without instruction from a scholar in flowing white robes and a fifteen-decade rosary dangling from his belt?"

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