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Mill Hill Missionaries
England's own missionary society, founded by Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster. MILL HILL works in mission lands all over the world, helping the souls and bodies of......
Answers '20 Questions'
Now that you are about to he ordained, do you feel that you are well enough trained for the practical side of a priest's job I CONSIDER I am sufficiently trained basically and......
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Does the seminary train you in any way to understand people and the sort of problems they are going to come to you with? NOT VERY WELL, I'd say. but at the same time this is......
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Do you think seminarians should be "apprenticed" in their diaconate year for practical parish work? SOME OF US now go to neighbouring parishes on Saturday evenings, stay until......
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What do you think of the idea now being pressed in some places for deacons to do practical parish work for two months before ordination? THIS IS BEING DONE in other countries......
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A prie.st needs the help of the laity. What exactly are you going to do to get it? I WOULD encourage the role of lay people—not just the societies, but everyone in the parish......
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Do you think that the priest's relationship with the laity should be less paternalistic and authoritarian and be more in keeping with the new stress on the role of lay people in......
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Would you say there was a possibility of the priest's role seeming to diminish? rr MAY to begin with, that's true, but once the laity are play ing their part and doing some of......
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Do you see the situation coming about in which lay people are doing more of the outside work, such as working for unity and Christianising society, with the priest acting as......
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Has the attitude of the general public towards the priest changed in recent years? I DO THINK SO. In general people are—far more educated and this means that what they look for......
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Why, do you think, is there a shortage of vocations to the priesthood? THAT IS a question which would probably be better asked of a parish priest than of someone about to become......
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Could the idea of a seminary possibly put people off? Could the shortage of vocations be due to seminary faults? NOT REALLY. Some of our priest-training methods are not up to......
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What percentage of your class left the seminary? THERE WERE 22 in our class when I joined and only nine of us are left. That is a falling away of more than 50 per cent.......
• Is This Normal?
NO, the falling away is definitely above average. tosca)4,.;:s 1/ the Church were to allow married deacons • would this cause a decline in vocations to the priesthood itself?......
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Have you any ideas for seminary reform? I'D LIKE to see students having more contact with the outside world, particularly with lay organisations and youth clubs. I know of......
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Do you think the traditionally strict discipline in the seminary could be relaxed a little? PROBABLY IT COULD be safely relaxed and I think this will gradually come about. What......
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How about the spiritual life in the seminary? Is there perhaps too much emphasis on this at the expense of the practical? SOME OF the spiritual exer cises could possibly be......
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What do you expect the Vatican Council to do in the field of seminary reform? SINCE THE AIM of the Council is to bring the Church into contact with the modern world. I would......
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Are you still being taught in Latin? NO, We were not taught in Latin last year either, although we were encouraged to follow the subjects in our Latin textbooks. There is now......
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The Mass is in English, of course? YES, WE SAY as much of the Mass in English as we are allowed to at present, and we also have Mass facing the people whenever we can. We were......