{"id":4754,"date":"2010-08-09T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/from-the-new-york-postto-the-priesthood.html"},"modified":"2010-08-09T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:05:06","slug":"from-the-new-york-postto-the-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/from-the-new-york-postto-the-priesthood.html","title":{"rendered":"From the New York Post…to the priesthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWell, here’s something you don’t hear about every day. <\/p>\n

Your Humble Blogger is sending along prayers and good wishes to another journo taking a leap of faith, and also preparing to join the Catholic clergy: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nJohn Wilson, a columnist and editorial writer for the New York Post, is hanging up his pen and pad for some priestly vestments.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old worked his last day at the News Corp offices on Friday, after a send-off party at the Blarney Stone. He will be entering a seminary in Yonkers in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Wilson primarily served on the editorial board at the Post. However he also penned columns decrying New York City’s high abortion rate, charter school opponents, and the Working Families Party.<\/p>\n

“I think my time at the Post has been a great education in a lot of ways,” Wilson said. “It taught me how to be really brief, to write concisely, to convey a point effectively. I am not going to say it’s similar to preaching but it might come in handy down the line.”<\/p>\n

More precisely: “In very different ways and in front of very different audiences, you are trying to sniff out the truth and communicate it.”<\/p>\n

Wilson spent three years on the Post’s editorial board, landing there immediately after graduating from Claremont McKenna College in California.<\/p>\n

“I definitely grew fond of tabloid journalism as such,” he says. “I had a great time and I think I was able to do some meaningful work there.”<\/p>\n

He added that the Post’s reputation for racy headlines and occasionally bawdy humor had little to do with his decision to seek a life of celibacy and the spirit, and said he was able to infuse a little bit of the sacred into his work there.<\/p>\n

“The phrase you hear a lot of in priestly circles is ‘Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable,'” he said. “At the very least I hope I’ve managed to afflict some powerful and comfortable people at the Post.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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