Spireality: “He and his buddies have lots of fun at the lumberyard… They laugh as they hammer the cross together, and Daniel has a real ball trying it out on the floor, joking around with the guys as he lies in cruciform position. And then, the journey to Calvary! The cross is loaded onto the boys’ SUV. At the starting point, Daniel hoists a daunting hundred pounds of wood onto his shoulders and starts walking, the guys and Fr. Jeff solemnly accompanying him like Christ’s disciples. Pretty soon Daniel is groaning and grunting, but when, after a few miles, Fr. Jeff insists that he allow them to share his burden, Daniel refuses. ‘I love it!’ he says. ‘I love the sacrifice!'” What happens when four Catholic seminarians stop being polite and start getting real? Well, as SoMA Review’s Mary Beth Crain discovers, a lot of made-for-TV inner struggling, self-righteousness and exxxtreme spiritual angst.