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Denver seminary chief urges seeing Millennials beyond stereotypes

• Shannon Levitt
  Jan 14, 2018
  BUSINESS MANAGER / ASSISTANT EDITOR

(Credit: Facebook page of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary.)

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DENVER - In the wake of a recent Associated Press report on a counter-intuitive surge in attraction to the Catholic priesthood among Millennials at one Ohio seminary, Father Daniel Leonard, rector of Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, said that while he can’t provide exact numbers, he too has noted an “increase in interest.”
Leonard also cautions that you shouldn’t believe everything you read about the Millennials, who can often turn out to be more complicated than the stereotypes would suggest.
There are certainly plenty of those stereotypes out there. The AP story, for instance, which focused on Mount St. Mary’s Seminary at The Athenaeum of Ohio, reports a sort of militancy in the Millennial generation of seminarians.

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