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A new study from the University of Notre Dame calls for better preparation for celibacy, greater use of psychological resources and a focus on vocational quality over quantity.
According to the report about the 2024-2025 academic year, college seminary enrollment went down 6% and graduate-level seminary enrollment dropped 8%.
Seminaries are at the healthiest point they have been in for decades in terms of culture and quality of priestly formation, experts say.
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St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore — founded in 1791 — is helping its seminarians become the best priests they can be.
While Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary specifically caters to older vocations, many other seminaries have a significant portion of their seminarians made up of older vocations.
There is a potential turnaround in some regions.
In the wake of last fall’s disclosure that some biological females had been admitted to seminaries, Catholic formators, canonists and doctors discuss precautionary steps seminaries need to take.
Such individuals can’t be ordained, but formators stress the need to accompany these persons with love and understanding.
Despite recent revelations about warning signs the diocese and its seminary allegedly ignored regarding the priest’s misconduct, the diocese told the Register its procedures are adequate.
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