Sunday, August 25, 2013

Conservative Catholic Book (3 of 5): Seminary gossip.



From Michael S. Rose’s “Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations from the Priesthood” (2002) (p. 94):

“When my associates at the university heard that I was on the board [of a certain seminary in the upper Midwest],” [a philosophy professor at a prominent Catholic university] continued, “they began to confide in me.  A graduate student in theology, for example, told me that his mother, who was a cleaning lady at the seminary, had at first been shocked at the male pornography she saw in the students’ rooms, rooms that she assumed were those of women students.  Her shock was deepened, however, when she learned that those were the rooms of seminarians who were studying for the priesthood.”

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