{"id":25272,"date":"2010-01-24T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/exchanging-a-baseball-cap-for\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T14:56:23","slug":"exchanging-a-baseball-cap-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/exchanging-a-baseball-cap-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Exchanging a baseball cap for a biretta: becoming a priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Grant%20Desme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grant Desme.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Grant Desme-thumb-200x284-5550.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>Making the rounds is the story that a top baseball player is following his true love, Jesus Christ by becoming a Catholic priest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,583713,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5\">Grant Desme<\/a>, 23, is leaving the Oakland A&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbeynews.net\/Abbey-Home.html\">Saint Michael&#8217;s Abbey<\/a>, a Norbertine community of priests and brothers in southern California. The community of Saint Michael&#8217;s is young, dynamic and they think with the Church&#8230;no surprise they&#8217;re getting vocations. Famous for their white habit and white biretta, the Canons Regular of Premontre were founded by Saint Norbert c. 1121.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Desme isn&#8217;t the only high profile athlete to enter the seminary in recent times, soccer player Chase Hilgenbrinck, left his sport to be a secular priest. He&#8217;s studying at Mount Saint Mary&#8217;s Seminary.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the rounds is the story that a top baseball player is following his true love, Jesus Christ by becoming a Catholic priest. Grant Desme, 23, is leaving the Oakland A&#8217;s for Saint Michael&#8217;s Abbey, a Norbertine community of priests and brothers in southern California. The community of Saint Michael&#8217;s is young, dynamic and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/exchanging-a-baseball-cap-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exchanging a baseball cap for a biretta: becoming a priest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,11],"tags":[1818,1702,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}