Pope Benedict XVI spoke with the priests in Albano and said the following about conversion. I just loved this and thought it was germaine to my topic here about conversion.

ON SAINT FRANCIS “THE CONVERTED MAN” Here in Albano, I have heard, a representation was made of the life of Saint Francis. [...] This can be a sort of first lesson in a context of Christian tradition, to reawaken the thirst to understand better what it was that this saint drew upon. He was not merely an environmentalist or a pacifist. He was, above all, a converted man. I have read with great pleasure that the bishop of Assisi, [Domenico] Sorrentino, precisely in order to remedy this “abuse” of the figure of Saint Francis, wants to proclaim the eighth centenary of his conversion as a “Year of conversion,” in order to [...] demonstrate what conversion is by connecting us with the figure of Saint Francis, in order to widen the horizon of life. At first, Francis was a sort of playboy. Then he realized that this was not enough. He heard the voice of the Lord: “Rebuild my house.” And little by little, he understood what it meant to “rebuild the house of the Lord.”
woman at the well