Candace Owens is facing renewed accusations of narcissism following her appearance at the Catholics for Catholics Conference, where critics counted her using the word 'I' at least 349 times across the length of her speech. This is compared to approximately 15 references to God. Owens, who converted to Catholicism in 2024, was speaking about her faith journey and the personal decision behind her conversion, a context her supporters say makes the self-referential language entirely unremarkable. Critics, however, have seized on the disparity as evidence of a pattern they say defines her public persona.
Owens converted to Catholicism after years as a Protestant, saying her decision was driven by a desire to pursue what she described as truth. Her husband, George Farmer, is also a Catholic, and the couple, who married in 2019, have four children together. She has previously described her conversion as a link to a broader ideological shift in her public work.
