Vocations Delayed By Debt

[Maria]

[quote name='Graciela' post='1284646' date='May 30 2007, 09:23 PM']It's interesting to note that men's communities will allow men to enter and then pay fully for their undergraduate and seminary educations while they are in formation. Does anyone know whether they have to pay that back if they leave during formation? But I think that the guys who are going for diocesan priesthood are responsible for their own educational costs (maybe the dioceses help some, but I don't think it's a full ride). A diocesan priest once commented to me about still paying on his loans from graduate school and he had been ordained for 15 years. I remember being surprised![/quote]
The English speaking Catholic community of our diocese has an organization, [url="http://www.pillarstrust.com/Beneficiaries.htm"]Pillars Trust Fund, that, among other things, pays for the education of our seminarians.[/url] I don't know if the French speaking side of the diocese has something comparable to it.

[puellapaschalis]

[quote name='farglefeezlebut' post='1284382' date='May 30 2007, 08:31 PM']I think Uk debts are different though, because if you have zero income (as nuns do) then you don't have to pay. UK students only have to pay beack 9% of their annual earnings over £15k (for 25 years after graduating or until your debt is repaid, whichever comes first) so if you don't have any income, no-one will demand that you pay off your debts.[/quote]

Not being obliged at that moment in time to pay off a debt is not the same as being financially solvent (i.e., not having any debts).

PP