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Changes in the Roman Curia affecting catechesis and seminaries

Posted on 26 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I was busy yesterday and missed this at News.va.  The Holy Father changed the “competence” of some dicasteries of the Roman Curia.
He moved responsibility for Catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization by … Continue reading →

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Note to priest abusers: You cannot hide!

Posted on 6 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A reader sent this from Boston Daily:
Learning to become a Catholic priest, unsurprisingly, takes a long time—you have 2,000 years of history to cover, not to mention philosophy, theology, and a foreign language to learn before you can be ordained. … Continue reading →

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Changes in the Roman Curia: governance of seminaries transferred to Congregation for Clergy

Posted on 27 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the end of the Synod of Bishops, which coincided with the beginning of the Year of Faith and focused on the promotion of the New Evangelization (of places where the Christian Faith and identity is dying or dead), the … Continue reading →

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Fr. Blake opines: the seminarians he knows all want the Extraordinary Form

Posted on 15 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the fine blog of my friend Fr Ray Blake, the distingusihed p.p. of Brighton, comes this encomium of the Dean of Bexley, tenens locum of Blackfen, His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan and a fun video he concatenated for … Continue reading →

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A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Brick by Brick file.
In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It occurs … Continue reading →

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Stop the whining LCWR. You aren’t the only group getting an extreme make-over.

Posted on 11 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Long-time lax catholics may not enjoy the resection and sutures the physicians of the CDF and the USCCB are applying to certain groups within Holy Church, but, as St. Augustine once preached, a doctor doesn’t stop cutting just because the … Continue reading →

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Atlantis rises: US seminaries are changing

Posted on 30 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

It isn’t rocket science.
The theological and moral bizzaro-world into which US seminaries sank Atlantis-like over the decades of the 60s to the 80s is over.  They didn’t sink in a day, and they won’t be raised in a day either.
But … Continue reading →

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Question for seminarians

Posted on 3 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As we know, Universae Ecclesiae spoke to the need for Latin Church seminarians to know the Extraordinary Form.
I would appreciate notes by email from seminarians about what is going on in their programs of formation.  Use the CONTACT link on … Continue reading →

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WDTIRS: Universae Ecclesiae 21: Drilling into the Latin and English (training of priests and seminaries)

Posted on 13 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A question came in about what the Instruction Universae Ecclesiae really says, in paragraph 21.
Since we look at texts here, lets see UE 21.
21 – Ordinarii enixe rogantur ut clericis instituendis occasionem praebeant accommodatam artem celebrandi in forma extraordinaria acquirendi, … Continue reading →

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Wm Oddie: Extraordinary Form in seminaries

Posted on 14 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE 15 March 15:29 GMT:
Mr. Oddie in his article, below, speaks about how Card. Rigali in Philadelphia has said that seminarians should be taught to say also the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and that he is introducing seminarians … Continue reading →

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