YORK (PA)
York Daily Record

August 19, 2018

By Anthony J. Machcinski

In 2006, Jonathan Ulrick was leaving his lay job to pursue a life in the priesthood, and a few of his friends took him out to lunch. One of the colleagues, a person Ulrick considered a mentor at the job, made a statement involving a priest and a child and made light of the clergy abuse scandal.

The colleague meant the statement as a joke, but it hurt Ulrick.

“I was wondering to myself, ‘Is this what this guy thinks of me?’” Ulrick said Sunday.

Ulrick, now a parochial vicar with St. Joseph, knew the Catholic Church’s reputation took a hit – with the clergy abuse scandal in Boston in 2002 and the others after it – but joined the priesthood anyway. He told the more than 200 on hand on Sunday that he believes he could…