The “Summer of Shame” inflicted harm on all Catholics discerning their calling within the Church. I was wrong to believe otherwise, and thanks to God’s grace and patience, I will enter the seminary this August.
Between paid business trips to the March for Life, staying in five-star hotels and meeting national pro-life icons, God blessed me with everything on this career path I could have asked for.īut the Lord had an even greater blessing in store for me: the realization that each of us has a God-given vocation written on our hearts, and that evil men like Ted McCarrick do not have the power to destroy that gift. During evenings and weekends, I served as president of a pro-life organization for young adults, Phoenix Pro-Life Future. I briefly moved to Washington, D.C., to write daily for the Washington Examiner before working full-time as an editor for Alliance Defending Freedom in Arizona. Scared to enter the clergy and reasoning that God wouldn’t send me to hell for pursuing pro-life work instead, I changed my career plan.
I knew God was calling me to the seminary, but the scandals tempted me to run the other direction. The tragedy of the Theodore McCarrick scandal, shortly followed by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury scandal, made me feel angrier and more heartbroken than ever before - such that I couldn’t even utter the Lord’s Prayer during Mass. During the Church’s 2018 “Summer of Shame,” I abandoned my plans to apply to the seminary.
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