All of our parishes here (North Florida) have had large numbers of converts or people coming back, and I read somewhere that the Diocese of Miami received 1200 people last night. Many of them have said in interviews published here in the press that it was what they saw of the Church during the death of JPII - and his enormous courage and faith during that time - and the beauty of the funeral liturgies, combined with admiration for BXVI and his forthright orthodoxy, that has brought them into the Church or back to it. I was talking to a friend from Atlanta today and she said the same thing. They received 60 people in her parish last night!