most cradle American Catholics find converts more amusing than anything else.   unless they mess with the Altar Society or the woman who has been running the bazaar since WWII.  then the parish priest takes an emergency vacation until the smoke clears and the poor innocent convert has retired to a quiet convent or monastery to settle his/her nerves.   the Bishop also refuses to get in the middle of this sort of thing either.  both he and the pastor know their limits!