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Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman Converted to Catholicism After Taking the Job


Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman implemented religious changes to the program and in his own life after taking over the the job in 2021

Less than a year after becoming the head football coach at the South Bend, Indiana university in December 2021, Freeman, 39, made the decision to convert to Catholicism. After preparing with [Father] Nate Wills, C.S.C., chaplain of the Notre Dame football team, Marcus made a profession of faith, was confirmed, and received his First Holy Communion.” “It is an honor, and I hope all coaches — minorities, Black, Asian, white, it doesn’t matter, great people — continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this.

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