Fathers to Be
'The hardest part was to tell them that I wanted to be a priest. So I mentioned it over tea. There was a lot of spluttering, but there's a lot of pride there as well.'
God's call to the priesthood can come at any time, insists Andrew, whose own call came when he was six. He went to Upholland
College last year at the age of 11. Upholland is the Roman Catholic Church's last remaining junior seminary in England and Wales. Its aim is to train schoolboys for the priesthood.
But many Catholics feel that a vocation should be tested in the family and in the parish, and that Upholland is a relic of the past. So is it an institution for brainwashing idealistic teenagers, or is it a place where a responsible decision for or against the priesthood can be made?
Film editor RICHARD TRAYLER-SMITH Photography TOM FRISWELL
Series producer DANIEL WOLF Producer BARRY LYNCH BBC Wales