UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Eamonn Walsh
BBC News
Years of sexual abuse scandals have hit the image of the Catholic Church and its priests face long hours and modest wages. So what drives the young men who want to be ordained?
Just around the corner from the designer shops and fancy restaurants of London’s Kings Road stands Allen Hall. It is home to a small number of men in the middle of a journey.
The residents of Allen Hall, a Catholic seminary, are spending up to six years preparing to become Roman Catholic priests.
The student priests, known as seminarians, believe they are answering God’s calling in dedicating their lives to the work of the Church.
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