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Catholic dioceses turn to TV in effort to recruit new leaders as numbers decline to crisis levels.
The music on the televised public service announcement sounds like heavenly, beckoning strings.
Words appear on the screen: “Religious life, making a difference, try it on.” Then, the Rev. Rick Samyn talks about his answer to God’s call to be a priest.
“How am I going to apply the gospel?” Samyn says, in the spot broadcast by the Archdiocese of Detroit. “I had a passion to make sense out of what it would be to be a Christian, what it is to apply the gospel.”
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Catholic dioceses turn to TV in effort to recruit new leaders as numbers decline to crisis levels.
The music on the televised public service announcement sounds like heavenly, beckoning strings.
Words appear on the screen: “Religious life, making a difference, try it on.” Then, the Rev. Rick Samyn talks about his answer to God’s call to be a priest.
“How am I going to apply the gospel?” Samyn says, in the spot broadcast by the Archdiocese of Detroit. “I had a passion to make sense out of what it would be to be a Christian, what it is to apply the gospel.”
Full Story