Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Age article



Poverty, chastity and obedience: it's an ascetic career path, and one fewer and fewer are choosing. Liz Porter meets some of the men who have traded a conventional life for the Catholic priesthood.

At 9.30pm on a Friday night, a group of young men cruise up and down Carlton's Lygon Street, revving car engines and chatting up girls. Two hundred metres away, in the historic bluestone chapel at the heart of Drummond Street's Corpus Christi Seminary, another group of young men kneel silently at evening prayer.

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