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Many men don’t make it.” He added that one must be called to priesthood by the bishop.

Father Pokorsky received that calling, and was ordained a priest in 1990 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington. He has served at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Arlington and Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale. At Holy Spirit, Father Pokorsky worked with two other priests serving a parish with 10,000 members. Rappahannock County, by comparison, doesn’t even have 10,000 residents.

Father Pokorsky referred to those churches as “Cosmopolitan,” adding that they are “catholic churches with a small ‘c’.” referring to the bigger mix of ethnic groups you get in the Washington D.C. area. One parishioner that he fondly

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