The presence of women in seminaries and seminary formation is vital for future priests and prevention of sexual abuse, but the Church must go beyond that and act now, a top New Zealand Catholic theologian said. Read more in NZ Catholic
Posts Tagged ‘Seminary formation’
Radical change proposed for Australian seminaries
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
Australia’s Catholic Church may scrap the centuries-old system of training priests in seminaries. Two years after a royal commission exposed the scale of child abuse in the church, Catholic leaders are reshaping the way clergy are appointed. This includes new screening and monitoring protocols for candidates and a revamped “national program of priestly formation” being Read more
The Catholic Church needs to overhaul its seminaries
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
Although clergy sexual abuse scandals aren’t new, the ones that have rocked the Catholic Church this summer revolved around a group seldom focused on before: seminarians. The sexual harassment and abuse of seminarians, and the response of seminary leaders, have been at the center of the case of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whose removal from Read more