FOX News Rundown EXTRA: From The Priesthood to Fatherhood

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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FOX News Contributor Jonathan Morris was a Catholic priest for 17 years, from 2002 to 2019. The last ten of those years, serving in New York City, he says he struggled with not wanting to be a priest anymore. After taking a break for a few months, he decided to leave with the permission of Pope Francis. Since then, he has gotten married and has become a father. Recently on the FOX News Rundown, Jonathan Morris joined host Chris Foster to discuss his journey from priesthood and fatherhood and how the faith of many people has been tested since the beginning of the pandemic. Morris also discussed the state of the Catholic church in America, and what changes he thinks could be made to improve it. Due to time limitations, we could not include all of the interview in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire conversation with FOX News Contributor Jonathan Morris and hear him open up even more about family and faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	Fox.
0:15.0	This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.
0:17.0	I'm Chris Foster.
0:21.0	Fox News contributor Jonathan Morris was a Catholic priest for 17 years from 2002 to 2019,
0:26.2	the last of those 10 years serving in New York City. He was originally from Ohio.
0:30.0	He says he struggled for a long time with not wanting to be a priest anymore, took a break for a few months, then decided to leave with permission from Pope Francis.
0:37.0	In October 2020, he got married to Caitlin Fulmer.
0:40.0	A year later, they had a son named Andrew.
0:42.0	He was on the podcast to talk about a poll finding
0:44.4	most people do not blame God for problems in the world, but some do. And he has some thoughts
0:48.8	about why bad things happen to good people. It was too many thoughts actually, along
0:52.4	with some other stuff we got into like daily life since
0:54.8	leaving the priesthood to get into the regular daily podcast. We thought it was interesting enough to share the whole conversation with you now.
1:00.3	Thanks for listening and subscribing. Please do subscribe if you haven't. Now Jonathan Morris on the Fox News rundown extra.
1:07.0	All right Jonathan let's start with this Pew research poll that I know you've been forwarded.
1:14.0	It finds that 90% of Americans...
1:15.6	Thank you very much, Devon.
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