{"id":56554,"date":"2025-11-16T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=56554"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:01:12","slug":"athlete-convert-to-catholicism-and-future-priest-the-story-of-josh-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/athlete-convert-to-catholicism-and-future-priest-the-story-of-josh-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8fd0\u52a8\u5458\u3001\u7688\u4f9d\u5929\u4e3b\u6559\u8005\u3001\u672a\u6765\u7684\u53f8\u94ce\uff1a\u4e54\u4ec0\u00b7\u5e03\u9c81\u514b\u65af\uff08Josh Brooks\uff09\u7684\u6545\u4e8b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Seminarian Josh Brooks. \/ Credit: Courtesy of Catholic Philly, official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 13, 2025 \/ 14:55 pm (CNA). Josh Brooks, a native of Delaware County in metro Philadelphia, dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol LeBron James and becoming a professional basketball player. However, God had other plans for him. Today, Brooks is in his third year of university studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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Today, Brooks is in his third year of university studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":69338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-56554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26761,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/philadelphia-archbishop-launches-missionary-hubs-to-reach-the-missing-83\/","url_meta":{"origin":56554,"position":0},"title":"Philadelphia archbishop launches \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmissionary hubs\u2019 to reach the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmissing 83%\u2019","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"17 1 \u6708, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] Archbishop Nelson P\u00c3\u00a9rez at his installation Mass on Feb. 18, 2020, at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. 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The Archdiocese of New Orleans released a letter written to child sexual abuse claimants apologizing for the \u201cinexcusable harm\u201d they suffered.\u201cOn behalf of the clergy, religious, and laity of the Archdiocese of New Orleans,\u201d Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans expressed in the Dec. 26, 2025,\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u5728\u201cChristian News\u201d\u4e2d","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Archdiocese of New Orleans issues public apology to abuse victims","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Archdiocese-of-New-Orleans-issues-public-apology-to-abuse-victims.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Archdiocese-of-New-Orleans-issues-public-apology-to-abuse-victims.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Archdiocese-of-New-Orleans-issues-public-apology-to-abuse-victims.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Archdiocese-of-New-Orleans-issues-public-apology-to-abuse-victims.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Athlete-convert-to-Catholicism-and-future-priest-The-story-of-Josh-Brooks.webp?fit=800%2C529&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=56554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}