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It’s out on DVD and<\/a> CNS reports on what’s happened since the series ended – including the news that the one young man who thought he’d be going to seminary…isn’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Of the four men featured this spring on A&E’s reality show "God or the Girl," three of them decided against entering the seminary to pursue a priestly vocation.<\/p>\n

The fourth, Steve Horvath of Virginia, who has been on a student missionary assignment in Lincoln, Neb., said he would apply to a seminary. Then he got stuck on the application.<\/p>\n

"The last parts that I ended up not completing were … ‘What do you think a Catholic priest should be’ and ‘What is calling me to the Catholic priesthood?’" Horvath told <\/span>Catholic News Service<\/span><\/a> in a July 27 telephone interview from Fairfax, Va.. "I needed some more subjective and personal reasons (than what he had been writing). In taking that to prayer, I really didn’t feel that calling."<\/p>\n

Horvath instead will spend a third year as a lay missionary at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As the CNS story reports, the God or the Girl<\/em> website has resources for youth ministers and others who might want to use the show in their programs.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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