Meet Baton Rouge's Young, Rapping Catholic Priest
The Advocate / The Associated Press | By Terry Robinson
Posted: 02/15/2015 1:32 pm EST
Updated: 02/15/2015 1:59 pm EST
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The youngest priest in the Diocese of Baton Rouge has a few confessions about his faith and his music: He didn't like the Catholic Church as a youth, tried for years to run from his calling as a priest, and doesn't want to be known only as the "Rapping Priest."
The, serving at Christ the King Catholic Church at Louisiana State University, is 27, and in his first year as a priest.
"I was raised Catholic, but I just never liked the Catholic Church growing up. I thought it was boring, and I didn't understand it," said Johnson, a native of Baton Rouge whose rapping has brought him a measure of renown on YouTube and social media. He hosts the hip-hop show "Tell the World" on Catholic radio.
Johnson's biggest difficulty with the church was with the Eucharist: "I never believed that it was the body and blood of Jesus Christ that the Catholic Church teaches."
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