Rector proclaims ‘golden age’ of American seminaries
July 21, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Carter Griffin, rector of Saint John Paul II Seminary in Washington, DC, tells the National Catholic Register that the American Church is seeing a “golden age” in seminary formation.
Father Griffin cites reforms that began with the 1992 apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis, by Pope John Paul II, and continued with more recent changes introduced by the US bishops in response to the sex-abuse crisis. He remarks:
The kind of men who are stepping up to discern the priesthood in our increasingly secular age are not interested in a watered-down Christianity. I don’t know of a single seminarian who wants a warmed-over Gospel message that craves approval from the wider culture.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.
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