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Prayers answered: Rhode Island diocese sees decades-high number of new seminarians

August 07, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: The Diocese of Providence’s eight new seminarians are “the most new seminarians in almost 40 years,” Bishop Thomas Tobin said.

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  • Posted by: Randal Mandock - Aug. 07, 2020 12:35 PM ET USA

    Makes you want to cry. Only 8? Scandalous. While other seminaries are so oversubscribed that they have to turn many applicants away.

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Monday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Paul of the Cross, Priest (USA)

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The US calendar celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775), who devoted himself to the service of the poor and the sick. He is best known for his apostolic zeal and his great penances. He founded the Congregation of the Passionists. (St. Paul's Optional Memorial on the General…

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