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Tag Archives: seminaries
Wherein Fr. Z reacts to a seminarian’s “cri de coeur”
I have written quite a few times here that – in this time of erosion and reversal in the Church – young priests and seminarians will increasingly be exposed to the sort of thing we older guys had to endure … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Cri de Coeur, Hard-Identity Catholicism, New catholic Red Guards, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged priesthood, Rod Dreher, seminarians, seminaries
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The forge in which future priests are hammered and annealed
From a reader in the Diocese of Charlotte, in North Carolina. Hey Father, On Respect Life Sunday, our newly instituted minor seminary[!] in the Charlotte Diocese (St. Joseph) [NC] took their 8 seminarians and recited a rosary in front of … Read More
ASK FATHER: Seminarians required to stand for Communion. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Okay… this is going to be hard. From a seminarian: I am currently a ___ year seminarian attending ___ . antecently, a new ‘policy’ was adopted here: all must receive Holy Communion standing. The Holy See has made it absolutely clear that we all have … Read More
ASK FATHER: Apostolic Visitation of FSSP seminaries
I have had a few questions in my email about an upcoming Apostolic Visitation to be made of the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). You probably know that in the FSSP’s founders could not go along with the SSPX’s late … Read More
Changes in the Roman Curia affecting catechesis and seminaries
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 … Read More
Note to priest abusers: You cannot hide!
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 … Read More
Posted in Seminarians and Seminaries
Tagged liturgical abuse, Msgr. James Moroney, seminaries
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Changes in the Roman Curia: governance of seminaries transferred to Congregation for Clergy
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 … Read More
Fr. Blake opines: the seminarians he knows all want the Extraordinary Form
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 … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Fr. Blake, Fr. Finigan, Marshall Plan, new movements, seminarians, seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
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 … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith
Tagged Bp. Morlino, D. Madison, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, seminarians, seminaries, TLM, Universae Ecclesiae
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Stop the whining LCWR. You aren’t the only group getting an extreme make-over.
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 … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged formation, Ireland, Irish Church, LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, magisterium of nuns, priesthood, seminaries, Visitation
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Atlantis rises: US seminaries are changing
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 … Read More
Question for seminarians
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 … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged program of formation, seminarians, seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Universae Ecclesiae
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WDTIRS: Universae Ecclesiae 21: Drilling into the Latin and English (training of priests and seminaries)
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 … Read More
Wm Oddie: Extraordinary Form in seminaries
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 … Read More
