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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone institutes a de-facto ‘novitiate’ year for diocesan seminarians entering formation.
With PPF stalled, bishop moves forward with seminary renewal
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is the most recent American bishop to introduce a propaedeutic, or spirituality, year as a component of priestly formation for seminarians studying to become priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The move comes amid a hangup between Vatican officials and the U.S. bishops’ conference over whether seminarians should be required to spend an entire academic year in a preliminary program of spiritual formation before beginning the rest of their priestly studies. Disagreement over that question has stalled the Vatican approval of a U.S. bishops’ document that would set the framework and expectations of American seminary formation, according to Vatican sources.
St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Credit: Lawrence OP
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In San Francisco, Cordileone told The Pillar that his newly introduced propaedeutic year, for young men entering seminary in 2021-22, has been a long-anticipated project.
“It's been something on my …
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