Young men in search of meaning are turning to the priesthood for the first time in years

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CINCINNATI -- The Athenaeum of Ohio is one of the oldest Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States, but its incoming classes of postulants are getting younger.
It’s part of a nationwide reversal of a decades-long trend in the priesthood, which spent years watching its new groups of priests grow older and smaller and struggling to capture the attention of younger Catholics.

“I never wanted to be a priest,” said 31-year-old Father Chris Geiger. “This is never what I would have picked for myself (growing up). … I wanted to teach high school math.”
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When I went through discernment for the Diaconate, there were a couple of ordained priest who took the class with us.

They said that they wished they had such a class when they went through the seminary.

They said that the emphasis was on whether they’d be able to handle seminary training and being a priest, rather than discerning whether or not God was calling them to become priests.

They shared that the discernment process today is far advanced from when they went through the seminary.

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