Any Good Seminaries

[popestpiusx]

[quote name='JP2Iloveyou' date='Apr 17 2004, 05:44 PM'] I've also heard a lot of good things about St. Meinrad's School of Theology in Indiana.

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Please tell me you are joking.

[PedroX]

PSPX,

It has improved greatly over the past few years.

peace...

[popestpiusx]

I know it has improved a little. However, I just got a course catalogue from them for their masters program. There is still some pretty wacky stuff going on there.

Here are some examples:

Intro to Liturgy
This course is designed to provide a general understanding of the principles of liturgical theology in the Roman Catholic tradition. The Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Liturgy provides the primary structure for the course’s themes and readings. Students will study the principal themes and values found in the Constitution and throughout the history of the Church. They will study the meaning of the “spirit of the liturgy,” the “spirit of the renewal,” and full, conscious and active participation in the liturgy. Taught from a pastoral perspective, the course will introduce students to the practice of mystagogical reflection.

Catholic Social Ethics
This course aims to provide the theory for the praxis of fostering a Community of Liberation in the new moral life. The course will synthesize, on the one hand, the teaching from Scripture, tradition and magisterium with, on the other hand, contemporary, scientifically aware, historically conscious, ecumenically sensitive and culturally inclusive perspectives on Catholic social ethics. Specific issues and their pastoral applications will be discussed.

Women in Early Christianity
This seminar focuses on the role of women in the early Church during the second through fourth centuries by focusing on texts such as Church orders, Apocryphal Acts, and Ascetic Literature and by reading books by Elaine Pagels, Karen Jo Torjesen, Ross Shepard Kraemer, and Peter Brown, as well as Henry Chadwick’s The Early Church: The Penguin History of the Church 1.

(The key to understanding why that last one is bad is knowing who those authors are.)

That's just three courses and there are many more. I would personally avoid Meinrad like the plague. On the other hand, it could be kind of fun :thinking: .

Edited April 20, 2004 by popestpiusx

[JP2Iloveyou]

all I know about Meinrad is that my former bishop, who I respect as being very orthodox was willing to send men there. He is very selective about the seminaries he sends to and I trust his judgment.

Also, you are correct, the fourth diocese that uses St. Greg's is in Texas, but among the dioceses in Texas, I'm not sure which it is.

[popestpiusx]

Judge a tree by its fruit. Of the 20 or thirty priests that I know from Mienrad, maybe one or two qualify as semi-orthodox. Most have defficient theology especially when it comes to moral. Sacramental theology is weak, at best. Liturgically (and I am not even talking about the Trid. MAss here) the situation is very very bleak. I just haven't seen the good fruit. Yes, they are improving. God Bless thm for that. But the problems abound.

[qfnol31]

[quote name='JP2Iloveyou' date='Apr 20 2004, 09:58 AM'] all I know about Meinrad is that my former bishop, who I respect as being very orthodox was willing to send men there. He is very selective about the seminaries he sends to and I trust his judgment.

Also, you are correct, the fourth diocese that uses St. Greg's is in Texas, but among the dioceses in Texas, I'm not sure which it is. [/quote]
That's surprising because we have two here. Well, I should say somewhat surprising...

I'm not sure either, but I bet I can find out for you guys.

[HomeTeamFamily]

any seminary in Charlotte NC........

sorry thats a shameless plug to try and get some cool seminarians in my dioscese lol

[Dave]

I've known several wonderful priests and seminarians from Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, MD and St. Vincent's in Latrobe, PA.

[vianney]

As a seminarian at Saint John Vianney sem in St Paul I take offense to the statments above about OLG seminary in Nebraksa being the only good and real seminary as if the other seminaries who use Novus Ordo are horrible and wrong. I hate to remind you but our Holy Father has approved the Novus Ordo Mass. It is perfectly ok and condoned by the Vatican and as I can admit the Tridentine litrugy is amazing I think both are valid and beautiful.

The arogance in this post rots of satan.

St Meinard has changed and it is now fine. I know many seminarians who go there who are orthodox.

Pax

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
4/22 - Second Thursday of Easter

Meinrad has only been kind to me in the past. I know a number of the priests there, as well as many of the seminarians, and I have full confidence that the men who are trying to let themselves be formed into good priests will be good priests. Israel is returning to the covenant, so let her.

[ThyWillBeDone]

I am in the proccess of applying to Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. I visited once and have heard good things about it. Just wondering if anyone else knows anything about it, is it as conservative as I have heard? I sure hope it is.
God Bless

[cspb]

Hey there...I saw your message on phatmass.com and wanted to drop you an email. I think it's wonderful that you are discerning a vocation to religious life! Be confident of my prayers for you.
I just joined a Benedictine monastery in January to begin my vocation in becoming a monk. If you have any questions or want to discuss anything in regards to religious life don't hesitate to email me at cspb2004@yahoo.com. Check out my online Vocation Journal I began before entering the monastery and continue to keep up to date where I chronicle my journey in religious life. You can check it out at: [url="http://www.myvocation.blogdrive.com"]http://www.myvocation.blogdrive.com[/url] Peace, Ryan

[Sarah147]

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[CatherineM]

Hate posting in old threads, but I'd like to put a plug in for St. Joseph's Seminary and Newman Theological College where I attend. Since the new Archbishop came 4 or so years ago, the college has booted or retired all the liberal professors, culminating in the replacement of the liberal, lay president of the college with the rector from the seminary. There are lots of people howling that the college is becoming too clerical in theology. The priests in charge now as Dean and as President are both some of the best orthodox priests I have ever dealt with, and I consider it a privilege to be allowed to study along side future priests.

[loveletslive]

my bishop is very selective about where he sends our seminarians - st. john vianney in minnesota, st. meinrad in indiana, blessed john XXIII in massachusetts (for late vocations), and mount saint mary's in emmitsburg. he pulled all the college seminarians out of the josephinum 2 years ago (a new rector or something?) and now they all go to SJV.

[TeresaBenedicta]

Wow. Really old thread.

The Mount's seminary in Emmitsburg is top notch. Just sayin'