Is consolidation inevitable for our American seminaries? “All our other educational institutions, as well as parishes, are biting the bullet,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan recently wrote. “It is time we in charge of seminaries do the same thing.” Others disagree: They say there’s
In late August, Cardinal Dolan wrote an op-ed in “America” calling for a significant reform of Catholic seminaries. Informed by his significant pastoral experience, the cardinal proposed greater excellence in seminary formation by way of consolidation: fewer, better-financed and better-staffed seminaries in
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has received the largest single programming grant from a charitable foundation in its more than 190-year history as Lilly Endowment awarded $1.2 million to establish programs to improve preaching by clergy in the
A popular historian of church architecture and promoter of liturgical aesthetics faces allegations of sexual misconduct against adult seminarians from his time on faculty at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois.
In a March 28 article, The Pillar, an online news outlet that covers the
The mission of a seminary "is not to form 'supermen' who pretend to know and control everything," but to help seminarians become priests who are humble servants of the communities they continue to belong to, Pope Francis said.
"The Lord calls some of
This past spring, more than a dozen seminaries across the country announced that they had joined together to develop a national protocol for the reporting and prevention of sexual harassment and misconduct in schools that form and educate future priests. John. Cavadini,
It was a day to thank God for sending more laborers to gather his harvest, Diocese of Charlotte leaders said as they blessed and formally opened St. Joseph College Seminary.
The newly completed college seminary was blessed by Charlotte Bishop Peter J. Jugis
Citing annual operating losses and declining enrollment, the Diocese of Buffalo announced it will close its seminary at the end of the academic year. Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, New York, apostolic administrator of the diocese, said Feb. 4 that Christ
During college, assistant editor Ava Lalor met a seminarian named Ben, and in recent months she has enjoyed following his daily Facebook posts noting “a couple of thoughts from seminary” in which he shares anything from deep theological truths to relatable and
Thorough transformation in American seminaries has improved priestly formation