Nicholas Morrison, philosophy major and seminarian at the St. John Paul II Seminary, was quoted in a Time story on millennials and the priesthood.
When 19 college guys go to Jamaica for spring break, they usually hit the bar and the beach.
Not Nicholas Morrison and his friends. Their trip to Montego Bay this March was far more medieval. Every morning they rose at 5:30 a.m. and prayed. Then they visited abandoned children with disabilities and dug an irrigation trench to protect the kids’ homes from flooding in the coming summer rains.
Morrison and his friends are Catholic seminarians, studying to become priests. Philosophy majors at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., they live and study at the nearby St. John Paul II Seminary, which opened six years ago to meet a growing demand from millennial men who want to join the priesthood.
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