{"id":4958,"date":"2006-07-15T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/07\/15\/seminary-secrets-of-the-priest-maker\/"},"modified":"2006-07-15T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T16:33:58","slug":"seminary-secrets-of-the-priest-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/07\/seminary-secrets-of-the-priest-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminary Secrets of the Priest Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">The National Catholic Register has a great interview with Msgr. James McDonald who was appointed rector of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception earlier this year. Here are some great snippet, but please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/articulo4.php?artkod=Njg0\">read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&#8230;<strong>How do you do this modeling?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have encouraged many boys and young men to become priests, so encouraging seminarians to persevere is a natural thing for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And how many of these men have become priests?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure of the total, but three from my last parish since going there in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three priests from one parish in six years?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have the best job in the world. I like to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"><strong>&#8230;How does the immediate short-term look?<\/strong><br \/>\nBishop Murphy asked me how we are going to get more priests. I told him, &#8220;From the Blessed Mother, who gave us the first priest.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Catholic Register has a great interview with Msgr. James McDonald who was appointed rector of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception earlier this year. Here are some great&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}