Seminaries in "Golden Age" - US Rector in Delusion?

“I am convinced that US seminaries are doing very well, better than they have in many decades”, Father Carter Griffin, rector of Saint John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C. told NcRegister.com (July 20):

“While there are statistics on seminary formation, my own conclusion comes down to personal experience and conversations with many other seminary rectors and formators over the 14 years that I have been doing this work. I would even call this a ‘golden age’ of seminary formation,” he said.

Mrs Darmina Chapp, dean of the School of Theological Studies at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary outside Philadelphia, added that the formation has shifted - from a curriculum steeped in the works of Karl Rahner to one influenced by the writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Pope Benedict XVI.

However, she admitted: "Many men arrive at seminary having experienced a woundedness in the broader culture that has to be healed so they can be empowered to heal others as priests."

Conservative author George Weigel claimed that US seminaries are "in the best shape they’ve been for decades, and possibly ever."

He added that some men are dismissed from seminary: "The days are almost completely gone when admission to a seminary was a virtual guarantee of eventual ordination."

For the 2023-2024 academic year, there were 2,920 seminarians, 40 years ago, the comparable figure was 6,426.

In den USA, the priesthood of the synodal church is commonly considered a "gay profession".

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P. O'BJul 23

Von Balthasar? He of the "Dare We Hope that All Men Be Saved" point of view, which contradicts the New Testament.

SonoftheChurchJul 22edited

A “Golden Age” indeed….of sodomy and sodomites. Even Francis knew it and was irritated by it.

V.R.S.Jul 22

The delusion starts with the very name: Saint John Paul II Seminary.

petrus100452Jul 22

@V.R.S. You are very wrong: From the book "The Remnant Archipelago," an exorcist describes the power of Saint Mary Magdalene in their deliverance sessions:
" The team had fifty-plus relics of saints on hand during the sessions. Many had come through in the clutch at one time or another, but certain saints turned out more advantageous than others. Sometimes the heroic virtues the saints displayed during their lifetimes were a counter to the vices the demons had habituated in the energumen [person suffering from demons], and so made for the perfect saints to invoke and relics to employ. In general, though, two saints were their go-tos, almost never failing--Saint Mary Magdalene and Pope Saint John Paul II-- and between the two, 'the Magdalene' won out with flying colors.
In one of their earliest cases, a demon divulged: 'We loathe her exceptionally because we owned her. That wh-re belonged to us! Now she tortures us!' "

frawleyJul 22

@V.R.S. Why do you question the title "saint"?

V.R.S.Jul 22edited

@petrus100452
1) The truth is JPII ruined the traditional exorcism Ritual.
2) I do not care what demons are saying - exorcists are to cast them out not to chat with them.

V.R.S.Jul 22

@frawley
Why do you question the title "saint"?
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Because the man who kissed the blasphemous Quran, called the Talmudic Jews his elder brothers in faith, arranged the Assisi abomination and proclaimed outrageous Nouvelle Theologie propositions like Protestant sects being means of salvation / paving the way to the communion of saints (cf. Ut unum sint for example)
is the same kind of "saint" as the later Pachamama man who proclaimed him such or Roger Moore for example.
And his express beatification process was mockery of the Holy Faith and God given reason.

frawleyJul 22

@V.R.S. Does that mean St Peter was not really a saint because he denied Christ not once but three times? Is sainthood out for you because of your past and future sins?

V.R.S.Jul 23

@frawley
Kindly notice material differences between the first pope and JPII of most infelicitous memory. For example:
1. St. Peter died as a martyr.
2. St. Peter denied Christ three times and three times he repented.
3. St. Peter was rebuked by St. Paul when he was trying to judaize and withdrew from false/scandalous practice.
4. St. Peter's apostolic letters provide Catholic orthodoxy. Actually, they also warn us against heterodox new theology embraced JPII, e.g. (2P):
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.
5. St. Peter had nothing to do with false religions. He abhorred them.