She felt called to the Catholic Church but she cant join
JOSH SHAFFER
FEBRUARY 12, 2017 1:50 PM
RALEIGH - The copper-coated dome of Raleigh’s new cathedral shines for miles in every direction, its cross touching the clouds. Looking west from downtown, it dominates the horizon while the sun drops behind the tree line – a majestic shadow on a hill.
The $41 million church called to Maril Doster long before it rose 170 feet high, even before it gained its steel skeleton. Not long past the groundbreaking day in January 2015, she pulled her car off Centennial Parkway and drove as close as she could to the site, stepping outside to bow her head and pray.
“I felt,” said Doster, “like God spoke to me and said, ‘This is your home now.’”
Doster, a retired baker who is nearing 60, hadn’t spent much time in church since she grew up a Scandinavian Protestant in Minnesota. And even though the Raleigh cathedral that so inspired her, the Holy Name of Jesus, wouldn’t be finished until later this year, she vowed to become Catholic.
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