Joe Armstrong (right) was at the ordination of three confreres in June 1988
But his once unwavering faith soon became tested and the surety he had known all his life fell apart. He began to question every aspect of his faith and, like dominos, everything he had once believed including the existence of an afterlife started to fall.
He wasn’t the only one to feel at sea in the seminary, he says. Every time one of his fellow novitiates walked away, he questioned what he was staying for. And the rate of attrition was high. Armstrong had joined firmly believing his ministry would “help save many souls”, but that fundamental tenet started to feel hollow right from the start.
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