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'Collar' Tells Story of One Year, Five Seminarians

Jonathan Englert spent a year with older men enrolled in Sacred Heart seminary in Milwaukee.
Jonathan Englert spent a year with older men enrolled in Sacred Heart seminary in Milwaukee.

Jonathan Englert spend a year at Sacred Heart seminary outside of Milwaukee, following five older men among the seminary's 80 students. He chronicled their classes and their downtime, their conflicts and their hopes. He tells Jacki Lyden about the book that resulted: The Collar: A Year of Striving and Faith Inside a Catholic Seminary.

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