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1 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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Gereons family upbringing his schooling his membership of a Jesuit youth group called Bund Neudeutschland his Franciscan novitiate/seminary education helped to prepare him both physically and spiritually for the challenges of constantly living in an environment hostile to Christianity; he was nothing if not courageous.
2 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
The 2010 opening of a Roman Catholic seminary in Havana was the first of its kind since the 1959 revolution.
3 - May 2015 - The situation of Catholics in China is worsening, Lina Chan
He was taken away the same afternoon went missing for some time and later confirmed to be restricted from movement and confined in the Sheshan Seminary in Shanghai.
4 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
For further details contact me or one of our Vocation Directors or contact the Holy Spirit Seminary.
5 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
He had studied at the Good Shepherd Seminary in Sydney.
6 - Mar 2015 - Seventh iWitness Retreat: another youth ministry success, Br Barry Coldrey
The organising team was led by Amy Vierboom and Anne-Marie McLaren and included Luke Streher MC (Immaculata Community) and as Liturgy Co-ordinator Ronnie Maree in his third year at the Good Shepherd Seminary Homebush Sydney.
7 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
Dr Azumah is associate professor of World Christianity and Islam at Columbia Theological Seminary.
8 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
The new priests include 25 deacons from Seoul Theological Seminary two from Seoul International Mission Community and one from the Claretian Missionaries.
9 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons
Bishop Ma was refused permission to continue to serve as a bishop and was placed under house arrest at the diocesan seminary located just outside Shanghai.
10 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell
The English College is a seminary which has been training priests to work in England since 1579.
11 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
Father Groeschel completed his theological studies at the Capuchin Seminary of Mary Immaculate in Garrison New York in 1959 and in that year was ordained to the priesthood in New York.
12 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore
In the twenty-first century it is not unusual for people who are not priests to undertake a theology course at Banyo Seminary.
13 - Oct 2014 - The implications of Anglican women bishops, Fr Dwight Longenecker
A few years earlier in the Episcopal Church of the USA women had already been ordained and the assumed position in the English seminary was that the women should do the same preparation as the men because they would eventually be ordained as priests.
14 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
Journal of a Soul makes for inspiring reading covering as it does the popes thoughts tracing his spiritual development through adolescence the seminary priesthood a European papal diplomat Cardinal Patriarch of Venice and finally as Pope John XXIII.
15 - Sep 2014 - Books: A CIVILISED DEBATE ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, by Arnold Guminski & Brian Harrison, John Young
Every seminary should have a copy.
16 - Sep 2014 - Is the US vocations crisis finally over?, Fr Dwight Longenecker
These are the young men who are going to seminary and the reason their numbers will continue to grow is because of several other factors.
17 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich
Fr Ledinich is Spiritual Director at Vianney College seminary of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga NSW.
18 - Aug 2014 - Uncovering the ideas behind the 'culture of death', Donald DeMarco
Dr Donald DeMarco is adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College amp; Seminary in Cromwell Connecticut a Senior Fellow of Human Life International and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
19 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The 14 June declaration resulted from a dialogue between a delegation from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Supreme Council of the Seminary Teachers of Qom the pre-eminent centre of religious scholarship in Iran.
20 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
He is one of the first priests from the Vianney Seminary in the Wagga Wagga Diocese founded in 1992 by the late Bishop Brennan and the first in Australia to be established in conformity with St John Paul IIs apostolic exhortation Dabo Vobis Patres (I Will Give You Priests).
21 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
This book is essential academic and seminary reading.
22 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP
Even though only a minority of candidates are typically expected to persevere through the seven-year program of seminary studies already three have been ordained priests with a fourth soon to be added (31 May).
23 - May 2014 - After the turbulent years: the Church renewed, Fr John O'Neill
This was flung at me at a clergy seminar in 1977 at St Patricks College Manly once our only seminary founded by Cardinal Moran in 1885.
24 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
These were the sentiments of Rabbi Abraham Skorka rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Buenos Aires on Pope Francis forthcoming trip to the Holy Land.
25 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey
The buoyant quality of Australian seminary life obvious over recent years resonates confidently as the new seminary year is in session after vacation.
26 - Dec 2013 - Inspirational Young Men of God retreat, Br Barry Coldrey
Already three additional priests led by Father Tony Percy Rector of the Good Shepherd Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sydney at Homebush arrived to assist.
27 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell
Bishop Bills announcement in 1989 of a new seminary in Wagga a decision denounced in an intemperate article in Sydneys Catholic Weekly was the first public sign that the head of an Australian diocese was ready to support Pope John Pauls program to retrieve Catholic life in the Western world.
28 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
Love of Jesus Christ The most important thing I learned in my seminary days was that the priest must have must live a personal love for Our Lord Jesus Christ.
29 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
In regard to the latter the challenge is enormous with Corpus Christi College Melbourne the regional seminary for Victoria and Tasmania currently listing not one person for the Hobart Archdiocese among its seven year levels of seminarians.
30 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
Later still he lectured in the Theology and Religious Sciences department at St Francis Xavier Seminary in Adelaide.
31 - Aug 2013 - Letters: Pope's advisory board, Ken Bayliss
I have been an admirer of His Eminence since his first days as Archbishop of Melbourne when he quickly reformed his seminary and was one the first Australian prelates to ban the incorrect usage of the Third Rite in his diocese.
32 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
After the Nazi invasion a year later the Germans closed the university and he worked for several years as a labourer while attending an underground seminary conducted by the Archbishop of Krakow.
33 - Jul 2013 - Formation: Future priests learn about the RCIA process, Rev Dr Elio Capra SDB
It is my hope and that of the seminary Rector and Archbishop Hart that this work will help our future priests to see that RCIA is the primary form of evangelisation in their own parishes.
34 - Jul 2013 - Youth: Melbourne's young adult ministry continues its revival, Br Barry Coldrey
His was a devoted Catholic family and his parents saved so that their eldest child could enter the seminary.
35 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Pell's candid responses to Victorian Parliament grilling, Peter Westmore
Few allegations have been made relating to the activities of priests in recent years a consequence of greater awareness of the problem the processes which had been put in place to deal with allegations of sexual abuse improved selection methods for clergy and better seminary formation.
36 - May 2013 - Letters: Jesuit legacy, Ken Bayliss
The Movement or the National Civic Council from mid-1957 has very good reason to record our gratitude to other true sons of Ignatius Loyola and the late great Daniel Mannix Archbishop of Melbourne thought so highly of the Society of Jesus that he appointed some of their members to teach in his seminary.
37 - May 2013 - Church unity and the Anglican Ordinariate, Archbishop Gerhard Müller
The Ordinary may determine specific programs of formation for seminarians of the Ordinariate living in a diocesan seminary or may establish a house of formation for them thus ensuring that seminarians are exposed to and formed by elements of their tradition.
38 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
The following is an edited version of a talk he gave to seminarians at the invitation of the Rector of St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Perth Msgr Kevin Long on 19 February 2013.
39 - Apr 2013 - Pilgrimage: A Holy Land pilgrimage with Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Wanda Skowronska
Before his conversion Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian minister teaching at Chesapeake Theological Seminary.
40 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
This encouraging scenario is indicative of a generally flourishing priestly vocations scene across Australia that continues into 2013 and has followed the seminary reforms of the past 20 years.
41 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Hopeful signs for Church in China Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples since 2010 and formerly a professor of Theology at the Holy Spirit Seminary in Hong Kong told an interviewer in Rome on 7 February that he saw many reasons for hope for the Church in China.
42 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
His superiors wanted him back in Australia to lift the standard of teaching of theology so he returned to Jesuit Theological College in Parkville Melbourne where he lectured for one term then spent a term at the diocesan seminary Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley then six months overseas lecturing at Weston College near Boston followed by research writing travelling in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
43 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
A Chicago based priest Father Barron teaches at the archdiocesan seminary and was described by Cardinal Francis George as one of the Churchs best messengers.
44 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
Those Catholics also told me to be an altar boy and perhaps join the seminary.
45 - Nov 2012 - Shanghai's new auxiliary bishop: a prophet and a hero, Bernard Cervellera
The Religious Affairs Bureau did not like this perfectly aimed blow and has confined him to house arrest in the Sheshan seminary on the outskirts of Shanghai for a forced period of rest.
46 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
Archbishop Coleridge was accompanied to Ignite by Fr Morgan Batt (Brisbane Vocations Director) Monsignor Anthony Randazzo (Rector Holy Spirit Seminary Banyo) and Fr Paul Catchlove a young Roman university graduate who has been active in the Queensland Catholic youth scene.
47 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Father Bird who was born in Newcastle NSW in 1949 spent four years in Ballarat as a student from 1968 till 1971 at the Redemptorist seminary in Wendouree.
48 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
The ACSA Chaplain Fr Greg Jordan SJ was present and was principal celebrant at the final Mass in the Corpus Christi Seminarys Chapel of the Sacred Heart in Carlton.
49 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
It also claims he is residing in the Sheshan seminary near Shanghai.
50 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
He was also Rector of the Seminary of Hoan Thien and Vicar General of the Diocese.
51 - Jul 2012 - Update: 'Jesus Abandoned' aid reaches the needy in Nigeria, Madonna Brosnan
The task of organising the distribution to the disabled in the different centres was complex and difficult although some of the items such as the two church organs for St Gabriels Spiritual Year Seminary Ozubulu and St Pauls Seminary Ukpor were simple deliveries.
52 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
In due course Sam joined a NET team for a year and at the beginning of 2012 he entered Corpus Christi Seminary Melbourne to prepare for the diocesan priesthood.
53 - May 2012 - Books: THE GIFT OF INFALLIBILITY, by Bishop Vincent Ferrer Gasser, Michael Daniel
Following his introduction Rev James Connor a former professor of theology at St Josephs Seminary New York presents a translation of Gassers relatio to which he has added valuable footnotes explaining key historical and theological information to help the reader understand the text.
54 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
org) nbsp; Mark Riedemann: You entered the seminary at the tender age of 12.
55 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist
However over the past twenty years since the state ceased its official support of atheism the Church has made a gradual recovery as highlighted by construction of the new San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary on the outskirts of Havana.
56 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
Regarding priests as the Churchs cornerstone he took measures to limit the use of lay-led liturgies in Canberra and Goulburn and will no doubt build on the recently improving situation in Brisbanes seminary.
57 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2011 in addition eight more men were ordained as deacons four from the Archdioceses own Homebush seminary and another four from the Redemptoris Mater (Neocatechumenate) Seminary then at Pagewood and now relocated to Chester Hill.
58 - Mar 2012 - Books: LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT, by Thomas Howard, Michael Daniel
Providentially St Johns Seminary in Massachusetts heard of his situation and offered him a position soon after his reception into the Church.
59 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
The book is crafted from a lecture series on the topic originally given to seminarians at the Good Shepherd Seminary Sydney while he was Rector.
60 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
He first encountered these centres as part of mission training in the seminary and has continued to visit them since ordination.
61 - Mar 2012 - Campion College's Summer Program on Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
Campion Colleges Summer Program also focussed on spiritual matters with Father Anthony Percy Rector of Sydneys Good Shepherd Seminary celebrating Mass for the students both to open the weeks activities and at their conclusion.
62 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
He applied for entry to the seminary of Sts Cyril and Methodius but instead was put in the army and only able to enter the seminary in 1965 after completing military service and returning to work at the ZVU works.
63 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
Since that time proponents of discontinuity seeing Vatican II as a blueprint for radical changes to the Churchs authority structures doctrines liturgy disciplines religious life seminary formation etc have mostly dominated the key decision-making areas affecting religious education in schools priestly formation liturgy and sacraments and the religious orders.
64 - Feb 2012 - Youth: iWitness 2011: a celebration of young adult Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Redfield College was well represented and also involved were Anthony Ndaira Youth Ministry Co-ordinator at the huge St Charbels (Maronite) Parish at Punchbowl and Jack Green from Doonside Parish who is preparing to enter the Holy Spirit Seminary St Marys Parramatta Diocese.
65 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
Robert Schroeders is director of university missions within the national evangelisation teams ministering in Brisbanes university chaplaincies and at the seminary at Banyo.
66 - Oct 2011 - Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets, Marie Mason
This year the Conference was held at Our Lady of the Lake University Seminary at Mundelein Chicago.
67 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
US dioceses record seminary numbers The Diocese of Dallas has a record number of 19 new seminarians Bishop Kevin Farrell announced on 19 August.
68 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
There can be no Church without priests and this means you must have a seminary where young people will be prepared to go and this means you must have an orthodox seminary.
69 - Sep 2011 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: The Life of St Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Br Barry Coldrey
In this role she travelled all over the West Country and as a private hobby began researching the lives of the Cornish gentry during the Elizabethan era especially the Recusants (those Catholics who refused to attend Anglican services) and the first English seminary priests from Douai in northern France who came to minister to the isolated Catholics in the 1570s.
70 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
Georgs and Josephs entry into the seminary their decision to become Catholic priests at that time was an open rejection of the Nazis who vigorously terrorised the Church.
71 - Sep 2011 - Pope appoints Archbishop Chaput to troubled Philadelphia, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Chaput founded Denvers St John Vianney Seminary which boasts one of the highest seminary enrolment rates in the country and has also been influential in the success of several Colorado-based organisations including the nationwide missionary group Fellowship of Catholic University Students the international womens group Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women and the Augustine Institute a lay Catholic graduate school.
72 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
However the Archbishop of Cracow Adam Sapieha maintained a secret seminary in his palace where Karol was able to pursue his studies on a part-time basis.
73 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Lack of vocations, Susanna Vale
One of my close friends had been allowed by Bishop Edward Kelly MSC (Toowoombas previous bishop) to begin his studies at another seminary because of his concerns about Brisbanes Banyo Seminary.
74 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
I recall from my seminary days a series of guest speakers converts to the Faith referring to this refusal by the Church to compromise on issues it saw as the truth in spite of pressure to do so and against popular opinion.
75 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report
After entering the Franciscans of the Third Order Regular in 1957 and being ordained a priest seven years later he eventually became rector of St Francis Seminary in Pennsylvania.
76 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
The significant increase in vocations to the diocesan priesthood in Australia that became evident during the 1990s following the founding of the Wagga Wagga seminary by Bishop Brennan the leadership of Archbishop Hickey in Perth and the seminary reforms by Archbishop (now Cardinal Pell) in Melbourne and Sydney is continuing.
77 - Jun 2011 - Archbishop Hickey: tribute to an outstanding Church leader, Brian Peachey
Archbishop Hickey responded by announcing that he would reopen the St Charles Seminary at Guildford which had been closed since 1975.
78 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
Fr Umbers is a full-time Chaplain to Redfield College in Dural NSW and provides spiritual direction at the Good Shepherd Seminary in Homebush.
79 - Mar 2011 - iWitness 2010: an unforgettable retreat for young Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
Among the many highlights of iWitness 2010: - daily Mass along with all-night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on the Friday and Saturday nights; - the well-prepared booklets for daily Masses and the morning Divine Office in the Conference Chapel; - the supportive presence of Cardinal George Pell Bishop Anthony Fisher OP Bishop Julian Porteous and Bishop Tim Costelloe; - the priests who celebrated Masses and heard confessions: Fathers Vincent Magat OP Simon Ckuj (Ukrainian rite) Bill Millstead and Robert Stewart OFM Cap; - the inspiration provided by young seminarians from the Good Shepherd Seminary at Homebush; - the prominent lay speakers who included Robert Haddad Peter Holmes Anna Krohn and Katrina Lee; - the presence of the Young Men of God leader Nick Morgan Michael and Laura from the National Evangelisation Team in Brisbane and the Catholic Youth Services team from the Sydney Archdiocese; - the presence also of two young Franciscan Capuchin Brothers three Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Nashville and two from Mount Schoenstatt Western Sydney.
80 - Feb 2011 - Vocations: Following in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, Kay Cozad
After profession of temporary vows he hopes to enter seminary next year to eventually become an ordained priest.
81 - Dec 2010 - Catholic origins: Psychology and Christianity: need they be at odds?, Wanda Skowronska
She is a consultant at the Congregation for Catholic Education at the Vatican and is currently working at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush in the area of Human Formation.
82 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service New seminary for Washington DC Cardinal-designate Donald Wuerl the Archbishop of Washington DC is seeing an increased interest in the priesthood in his archdiocese and announced on 20 October that the archdiocese would be opening a new seminary.
83 - Nov 2010 - Vocations: Priestly and religious vocations upsurge in the US, Tim Drake
The St Paul Seminary is welcoming 33 new seminarians this autumn bringing its total number of men studying for the priesthood to 92.
84 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
From 1985-1986 prior to his elevation to auxiliary bishop in 1987 Dr Pell was Rector of Corpus Christi College the seminary which trains priests for dioceses in Victoria and Tasmania.
85 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
Bishop Porteous is an auxiliary bish op in the Sydney Archdiocese and was formerly Rector of Sydneys Good Shepherd Seminary.
86 - Aug 2010 - Books: JESUS CHRIST, YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVER, by Fr Anthony Percy, Micheal Daniel
The target readership is principally young adult Catholics to whom the author feels close as a key organiser of World Youth Day and subsequently as Rector of the Sydney Archdiocesan Seminary of the Good Shepherd.
87 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Where did responsibility lie for a culture of seminary institutions which produced both those who abused and those who mismanaged the abuse?
88 - Jul 2010 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
This is a book which should be in every Catholic academic and seminary library.
89 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Among the other findings of the survey: the average (mean) age of ordinands is 37; the median age of diocesan ordinands is 33; 10% are converts; 55% have more than two siblings; 49% attended a Catholic school and 39% attended a Catholic college or university; 60% completed tertiary courses before entering the seminary; 92% held full-time jobs; 78% were encouraged by a priest to enter the seminary; few were influenced by vocational advertising; 19% attended a World Youth Day and 8% attended a Franciscan University of Steubenville High School Youth Conference; 67% regularly prayed the Rosary before entering seminary; 65% regularly took part in Eucharistic adoration; the seminarians typically began to consider a priestly vocation when they were 18.
90 - May 2010 - Books: BE TO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST, by Fr Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Michael Daniel
During his seminary formation which commenced in 1968 a month after the promulgation of Humanae Vitae the eclectic to bizarre ideas regarding the priesthood gained currency and students such as himself who adhered to the Churchs theology of the priesthood and received understanding of the role of the priest were increasingly marginalised.
91 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
However this could- have-been football champion opted instead for the Corpus Christi Seminary Werribee and the priesthood.
92 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
He was professor of Biblical and philosophical studies at the National Seminary Ampitiya Sri Lanka for over 30 years and also lectured at an interdenominational Protestant seminary in Sri Lanka.
93 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
Bishop Rhoades and Fr Ray LaVoie (Vocations Director) brought our seminary census to over 45 exceeding the much larger Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the first time ever.
94 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks
The theme for 2010 I am the Bread of Life he who comes to Me shall never be hungry (Jn 5:35) was addressed by speakers including Fr Mark Freeman Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hobart Fr Chris Ryan MGL Rector of the Missionaries of Gods Love Seminary and the Youth Mission Team Australia.
95 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
After Vatican Council II says Professor Wim Peeters a teacher at the seminary of the diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam the Dutch Church entered a profound crisis.
96 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
In 2009 Sydneys Seminary of the Good Shepherd had 36 students including 21 for the Sydney Archdiocese (with another six accepted for 2010).
97 - Feb 2010 - Editorial: A new decade but the same challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
The Sydney seminary like other Australian seminaries where much-needed reforms have taken place in recent years continues to attract highly qualified aspirants to the priesthood.
98 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
In 1939 Joseph entered the minor seminary in Traunstein in the months prior to the outbreak of World War II.
99 - Oct 2009 - Books: AFTER THE HEART OF GOD, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Br Michael McMurray CCS
Available from Freedom Publishing) Bishop Julian Porteous author of After the Heart of God which treats in masterful fashion the life and ministry of priests was for some years Rector of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Sydney.
100 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
Obviously the parish priest of the movie was not an attentive reader of Scripture and plainly there were yawning gaps in his seminary training and formation for ministry.
101 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
AD2000 asked Fr Paul Glynn SM who has just finished several years as spiritual director to Sydneys Good Shepherd seminary for some reflections on what is needed in the life of a seminarian and a priest today.
102 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
One of the most important evolutions in tridentine seminary formation has been the recognition that all aspects of formation are built upon the human dimension.
103 - Sep 2009 - Books: DEIFICATION AND GRACE, by Daniel Keating, Br Barry Coldrey
The author Daniel Keating is Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit.
104 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
Providential encounter Tonys path to Japan was forged by a providential encounter in the seminary with Fr Lionel Marsden an Australian military chaplain who had been taken prisoner by Japanese forces during the war.
105 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey
In his words lunacy gripped the Theology Department in Seton Hall Seminary and many students found themselves using apologetics against their professors to defend the Catholic Faith!
106 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich
Evangelisation plans put in place up to eight years ago by Rector Monsignor Anthony Randazzo have resulted in a promising turn- around in vocations at Brisbanes Holy Spirit Seminary.
107 - May 2009 - Books: Golden Years: Grounds for Hope: Fr Golden and the Newman Society 1950-1966, David Kehoe
Crucially for the spread of new ideas many young seminarians at Corpus Christi Seminary in Werribee just south-west of Melbourne who yearned to be enlightened thinkers looked up to the leading figures of the Newman Society for intellectual inspiration in reforming the Church and building a better world.
108 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel
In 1989 virtually every seminary was controlled by liberal elements.
109 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
Not a few have entered the seminary or novitiate.
110 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Dissent, Peter D. Howard
The Catholic Leader (8 February 2009) informs us that the ACU is now the primary higher education body for teaching theology for the Catholic Church in Queensland and that the new rector of the Holy Spirit Seminary Monsignor Tony Randazzo also hailed the change for allowing cross-pollination of ideas between the seminarians and the broader public .
111 - Mar 2009 - Marian Valley, spiritual oasis for young Brisbane Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
The Order has two young Australians training for the priesthood at a Roman seminary and another young man doing his Novitiate in Poland.
112 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
He grew up in Canada but returned to the United States in his teens first working in Texas - the youngest member of the Texas chamber of commerce he would often say - before finding his way to the Lutheran seminary following in his fathers footsteps.
113 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
The report also stressed that the formation of laity really ought to take place elsewhere than at a seminary which exists for the formation of candidates to the priesthood.
114 - Mar 2009 - Vocations: Indian priests: still plentiful but fewer available for overseas, AD2000 Report
It is not a solution said Msgr Bosco Puthur the rector of St Joseph Pontifical Seminary in Mangalapuzha.
115 - Feb 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
It covers his childhood seminary years academic career media stardom travels and pastoral work.
116 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
After lunch Father Tony Percy the new Director of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush addressed sexual morality taking Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body as his guide.
117 - Dec 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority?, Frank Mobbs
Once I studied in a Greek Orthodox seminary.
118 - Nov 2008 - Human rights: Religious persecution in China, India, Vietnam, Fr John Flynn LC
The Catholic Church also reported that the government approved the establishment of one additional Catholic seminary.
119 - Aug 2008 - Foundations of Faith: How much history do the Scriptures contain?, Frank Mobbs
Dr Frank Mobbs is a former seminary and university lecturer in philosophy and theology with many publications to his name.
120 - Aug 2008 - Priesthood: St Louis: another US vocations success story, AD2000 Report
On Saturday 20 May nine young men from the Kenrick- Glennon Seminary were ordained as priests for the St Louis Archdiocese - the largest ordination class in 25 years and one of the largest in the US.
121 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton
Recently a World Youth Day information night was held for seminarians at Corpus Christi College the regional seminary for Victoria and Tasmania.
122 - Jun 2008 - Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael E. Daniel
Initially charitable works focussed on supporting the German refugees and their priests including a seminary established for dislocated seminarians at Konigstein.
123 - Jun 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Reasons for believing in God, Frank Mobbs
Dr Frank Mobbs is a former university and seminary lecturer on philosophy and theology and has written several books and numerous articles on religious topics.
124 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVIs US visit: more seminary inquiries St Josephs Seminary in Yonkers New York has received dozens of applications following Benedict XVIs visit the New York Daily News reported.
125 - Apr 2008 - Church law: Conciliar decrees: what authority do they have?, Frank Mobbs
Dr Frank Mobbs is a former university and seminary lecturer in philosophy and theology and the author of books and numerous articles on religious issues.
126 - Apr 2008 - Human rights: Cardinal Joseph Zen: conscience of China, Peter Westmore
He has worked closely with Cardinal Zen for many years and been a lecturer with Cardinal Zen at the Holy Spirit Seminary.
127 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: Signs of hope in US diocese
Some of our parishes have three or four guys who are in the seminary and many have zero he said noting that there are about 20 parishes represented among the men currently preparing for the priesthood.
128 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
Courses offered by the Chaldean Major Seminary of St Peter and Babel College the only Christian theological faculty in Iraq resumed officially late last year in Ankawa after the forced relocation of both institutions from Baghdad which had become too dangerous.
129 - Dec 2007 - Catechetics: Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish priests, Michael Gilchrist
Thanks to the seminary reforms in several dioceses in recent years there has been an encouraging beginning in this direction.
130 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
The born from the crisis colleges and universities are of more recent vintage: Ave Maria University Holy Apostles College and Seminary John Paul the Great Catholic University Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy Southern Catholic College and Wyoming Catholic College.
131 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
The novitiate house in Canberra has eighteen in training and the seminary house in East Burwood (Bennetswood) Melbourne has thirteen students who do their academic studies at Catholic Theological College.
132 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
After years of vapid New Church posturing the Archdiocese of Melbourne reached its vocation nadir in 1996 when only one candidate entered the seminary.
133 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
The impact home-schooling can have is evident in a statistic from the director of vocations in the Rockford diocese who said that of 30 boys who graduated from home-schooling families between 2000 and 2005 in that diocese seven entered the seminary - 23 percent.
134 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
Let us consider for a moment the impact this decision should have on seminary formation.
135 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: Bill Daly RIP: fearless defender of Catholic orthodoxy in Australia, Fr James Tierney
We reported on defective catechetics the corrosive sex education introduced into Catholic schools in 1975 the demythyologising of the Resurrection at the seminary and the fallacious philosophy and theology courses being taught at the Teachers College at North Sydney (now a part of Australian Catholic University).
136 - Jun 2007 - Youth ministry active in the Melbourne archdiocese, Barry Coldrey
Melbourne University is experiencing its own renaissance with the arrival of former seminary Director Father Michael McKenna as its new Chaplain while Sr Theresa Ryan is the Chaplain for International Students.
137 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
In my last teaching years at Dunwoodie Seminary of Yonkers a group of students began meeting quietly each afternoon at five for an Hour of Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.
138 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
In this regard he asks that future priests from their time in the seminary receive the preparation needed to understand and to celebrate Mass in Latin and also to use Latin texts and execute Gregorian chant; nor should we forget that the faithful can be taught to recite the more common prayers in Latin and also to sing parts of the liturgy to Gregorian chant.
139 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
I entered the seminary in 1976 after graduating from eighth grade (parochial school) and continued from high school seminary to college seminary to major seminary until ordination in 1988.
140 - Dec 2006 - 'Lost!' controversy: Archbishop Bathersby's reply, AD2000 Report
The Archbishop was apparently concerned at the prominence given to Brisbanes miniscule seminary numbers compared with the rest of Australia.
141 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
Forced to leave home due to his jealous stepbrother John worked as a tailor baker shoemaker tutor and carpenter to pay his way through college and the seminary.
142 - Nov 2006 - Books: Is the Catholic Church in Australia 'lost'?, Michael Gilchrist
Moreover a commitment to orthodoxy is the only approach that will attract any of the young on a long term basis as evidenced in the upswing in vocations reflected in seminary enrolments and the focus of the more successful ecclesial movements and communities that have emerged in recent decades.
143 - Sep 2006 - Clergy: ACCC Annual Conference focuses on theology of Benedict XVI, AD2000 Report
Davis Military Ordinary for Australia while for the closing Mass the homilist and principal celebrant was the Very Rev Peter Thompson CM Rector of St John Vianney Seminary Wagga Wagga.
144 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
Chavagnes International College was set up in 2002 in a set of buildings that used to be a junior seminary founded exactly 200 years earlier by a saintly priest the Venerable Louis-Marie Baudouin.
145 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
This man was one of 35 currently studying at the Corpus Christi seminary in Melbourne although there are no seminarians for Tasmania.
146 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
National Vocations Awareness Week From the low point of a decade ago seminary numbers at Corpus Christi College the regional Seminary for Victoria and Tasmania continue to increase with applicants for the Archdiocese of Melbourne forming the bulk of the numbers.
147 - Aug 2006 - Priesthood: Promoting vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Fr Anthony Denton
I meet with them give them support and encouragement and if there is evidence that their perception of a call is authentic and supernatural I accompany them along the path to entering the seminary.
148 - Jun 2006 - Vocations: Sydney seminary's growth continues, Michael Gilchrist
The number of students at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Sydney has continued to increase this year with 44 seminarians enrolled along with another three studying in Rome.
149 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News US Catholic college group promotes vocations A national campus ministry group is inspiring a growing number of young men to enter the seminary.
150 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Somebody who comes to the seminary from a gay lifestyle cannot be a priest.
151 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
Dodgy seminary formation has left the Church with at least one possibly two generations of priests who are unsuitable to receive mitres.
152 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
I was brought up on it at St Marys Cathedral Sydney as a server and during eight years of seminary life.
153 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI comments on seminary formation On 20 January Pope Benedict XVI received the rector and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome the Almo Collegio Capranica which forms students to the priesthood for Rome other Italian dioceses and the rest of the world.
154 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon
There is no reason a young man wanting to serve the Lord should be expected to put up with the nonsense of running the gauntlet of dissent and homosexuality in the seminary only then to face constant vexation and opposition from his fellow clergy once ordained.
155 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The Instruction directs that a man who is an active homosexual has profoundly deep-rooted homosexual tendencies or identifies himself as homosexual should not be ordained or admitted to seminary training.
156 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
He was previously Director of Human Formation and Assistant Professor of Theology at Mount Angel Seminary Oregon and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Fundamental Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.
157 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
Archbishop Chaput argues that orthodoxy has a growth market - Its huge - and can cite as evidence the case of the seminary he runs in Denver.
158 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Proposition 36 suggests that in international celebrations the Mass be said in Latin apart from the readings the homily and the Prayers of the Faithful and that priests be trained from the seminary to use Latin prayers as well as Gregorian Chant.
159 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
You too after your long necessary program of seminary formation will be sent forth as ministers of Christ; indeed each of you will return as an alter Christus.
160 - Nov 2005 - Editorial: A remarkable Catholic parish
A by-product of this has been the continuing stream of priestly vocations from St Agnes with this year eleven young men from the parish among the 72 in training at the archdiocesan seminary.
161 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XV on problems in the Church in Germany On 21 August Benedict XVI addressed the bishops of Germany at the Cologne seminary following World Youth Day which he called a sign of hope to the Church in this country.
162 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Referring to the administration of dioceses the Statement said that in choosing their collaborators in the diocesan administration seminary and in parishes bishops need to make these appointments with a careful eye and with great attention always giving emphasis to sanctity of life orthodoxy and pastoral competence.
163 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein chancellor Jewish Theological Seminary of America: No keener rebuke has come to Nazism than from Pope Pius XI and his successor Pope Pius XII.
164 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Chinese seminary staff at papal audience Pope Benedict XVI welcomed 28 seminary instructors from China to his public audience on 3 August.
165 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
I recall steering one young applicant away from the local seminary to one which was trustworthy.
166 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
95 Snow On the Hedges Helen Whelan St Cuthbert Mayne was executed in 1577 and was the first of the overseas seminary priests to give his life for the Catholic Faith in Elizabethan England.
167 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Catholic Than the Pope, by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere, Fr Glen Tattersal FSSP
This culminated during a crucial visitation of the SSPX seminary at Econe in a fulmination by Archbishop Lefebvre against modernist Rome which he said was opposed to the Rome of tradition.
168 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
Called Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith it was produced in conjunction with St Johns seminary Wonersh which is the seminary for the local diocese Southwark.
169 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News AgencyIrish bishops apology for ignoring seminary abuses The Irish Catholic bishops released a report in June showing that the hierarchy had ignored complaints about theological novelties and sexual harassment at the national seminary in Maynooth.
170 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
Patrick opened it and inside was his seminary reference.
171 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart
Father Paul Stuart former Director of Vocations and Dean of Students at Melbournes Corpus Christi Seminary is presently completing a doctorate.
172 - May 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X, Stephen McInerney
: The Seminary Interviews (Kansas City: Angelus Press 2004).
173 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
He enrolled in an underground seminary during the Nazi occupation while working as a factory labourer and was ordained a priest just four years later.
174 - Apr 2005 - Books: Mass Without a Congregation: A Sign of Unity or Division?, Michael Gilchrist
He was appointed Rector of the Major Seminary of the Resurrection Fathers in Cracow where he was involved in the work of its Liturgical Institute.
175 - Mar 2005 - Adult Education: Sydney Centre for Thomistic Studies continues a great teacher's legacy, Audrey English
After some years as foundational Rector of the Marist Seminary at Toongabbie the Doc established the Aquinas Academy in 1945 to provide adult education in the Faith.
176 - Mar 2005 - Church's future lies with orthodoxy, not dissent, Fr Paul Stuart
The following is a rebuttal by Fr Paul Stuart former Director of Vocations and Dean of Students at the Corpus Christi Seminary Melbourne Archdiocese of the dissenting views of Fr Eric Hodgens in the January 2005 edition of Online Catholics which were widely reported in the media including The Australian Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age.
177 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
The Rector of Sydneys Seminary of the Good Shepherd Bishop Julian Porteous informed me that there are now 42 students in residence the largest number for many years.
178 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
I know priests of scrupulous orthodoxy who spend themselves in the study of truth and in passing it on in assimilable form to those they teach whether in seminary or parish.
179 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
This journal has devoted much space in recent years to strong episcopal leadership upturns in seminary numbers new religion texts and renewal programs based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church outstanding parish initiatives flourishing religious communities promotion of Catholic culture and university youth ministry endeavours.
180 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Seminary reforms (letter), Fr Peter Thompson CM
In your October 2004 edition you twice (pages 2 and 3) refer to recent seminary reforms in Melbourne Sydney and Perth.
181 - Nov 2004 - Books: From East to West You Gather a People, by Fr Russell Hardiman, Brian Peachey
The author is a priest of the Bunbury Diocese and a lecturer in Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle Western Australia and at St Charles Seminary in the Archdiocese of Perth.
182 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Two Wings Of Catholic Thought, edited by D.R. Foster, J.W. Koterski SJ, Br Christian Moe FSC
Br Christian Moe is a staff member at the Corpus Christi Seminary in Melbourne.
183 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
I understand that the Polish priest is a professor at Warsaw University and is closely connected with the seminary there.
184 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
However recent seminary reforms in Melbourne Sydney and Perth with greater stress on priestly identity strong spiritual formation more self-discipline fidelity to doctrine and obedience to papal and episcopal authority have seen encouraging upturns in numbers that defy the general trend.
185 - Oct 2004 - Editorial: Addressing the shortfall of priests, Michael Gilchrist
This approach has the twofold benefit of providing seminary training and pastoral experience for the overseas recruits while helping to meet Australias shortfall of priests on a rotating basis.
186 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
Then do not be put off by the years of study or the changeable details of seminary systems.
187 - Sep 2004 - Mission: Sydney seminary's evangelisation program revitalises parish, Bishop Julian Porteous
There are so many dimensions to priestly life and ministry that need to be canvassed over the seminary period.
188 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), George Simpson
The prayerful environment of a good seminary would seem to best foster the right attitude.
189 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Ireland: only eight new priests this year Class of 2004 less than one-third of last years Only eight students from Irelands national seminary will be ordained to the priesthood this year the Irish Independent has reported.
190 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
In 1957 when I was only two months ordained I was sent from the seminary at Manly to St Canices Church Elizabeth Bay Sydney to celebrate Sunday Mass.
191 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
Chavagnes International College occupies the site of a former seminary and junior seminary founded and built in 1802 by the Venerable Louis Marie Boudouin.
192 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
US Bishops ad limina visit Pope insists on proper seminary training Meeting on 6 May with a group of American bishops from Detroit and Cincinnati making their ad limina visit Pope John Paul II highlighted the duty of bishops to build an ever closer relationship with your priests and to ensure the seminaries provide proper training particularly in preparing young men for a life of celibacy.
193 - May 2004 - Events: Wagga Wagga Seminary Open Day 16 May
Vianney College the Wagga Wagga Dioceses seminary will conduct an Open Day on Sunday 16 May starting with Mass at 11.
194 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
If the current retention level of Melbourne seminarians is sustained at the regional seminary of Corpus Christi College Carlton then the Melbourne Archdiocese at least has room for optimism about the future.
195 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
Cardinal Pell was cautiously optimistic on this subject during his Rome interview: I think in Melbourne where Dr Pell had earlier reformed the seminary there have been good fruits the number of seminarians has increased that increase continues.
196 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Elsewhere in his Letter the Holy Father appealed to parish communities and priests in particular to show special care for altar servers who make up a garden of priestly vocations: The group of altar servers under your guidance as part of the parish community can be given a valuable experience of Christian education and become a kind of pre-seminary.
197 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
This approach is now being largely followed in most major dioceses and there has been an upturn in seminary numbers with the spiritual benefits gradually becoming evident in some parishes and dioceses.
198 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope continued with a long and very concrete set of recommendations urging the bishops to devote careful attention to seminary formation selection of candidates for the priesthood and a tight focus on the spiritual life of priests seminary staff and candidates for the priestly ministry.
199 - Dec 2003 - Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid, Fr Peter Murphy
Fr Peter Murphy is a senior lecturer at Vianney College Diocesan Seminary of the Wagga Wagga Diocese.
200 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Lourdes pilgrimage (letter), Jenny Davies
The pilgrimage began in Paris where we met up with the pilgrimages spiritual director Capuchin Father Carmel Flora of Plumpton Seminary in Sydney who had arrived on an earlier flight.
201 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
But one year Arlington had twenty-two new men entering seminary - more than enough to make up for some of the other years.
202 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
The MGL also expects that their Seminary in Burwood Melbourne which is the next stage in the formation process towards priesthood will have ten seminarians next year.
203 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
He made a good start with the seminary of Corpus Christi College the improvements of which contributed to an increase of local vocations.
204 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
Ordained a priest for the Ballarat Diocese in 1966 he was consecrated an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1987 following a ten- year career in Catholic higher education and two years as rector of the Corpus Christi seminary.
205 - Oct 2003 - Letters: New bishops (letter), Anne Lastman
Indeed when I was in Sydney recently at the Human Life International conference Bishop Porteous invited Gail Instance HLI President Fr Euteneuer President HLI (USA) and myself for lunch at the seminary.
206 - Oct 2003 - AD2000 readers' generous response to Queensland Lourdes appeal, Jenny Davies and Nicole King
She has been enrolled at St Pios tomb in Italy for daily Mass while Capuchin priest Fr Carmel Flora from the Assumption Seminary Plumpton Sydney who is accompanying the pilgrimage had celebrated a novena of Masses for Susans complete recovery beginning on St Pios birthday last May.
207 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
It is no coincidence that bishops - including hand-picked John Paul II bishops such as Archbishop Chaput of Denver - who have closely aligned themselves with the Popes leadership and teachings have witnessed signs of spiritual re- growth in their dioceses including increases in seminary numbers and religious vocations.
208 - Sep 2003 - Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill, Fr Peter Joseph
Fr ONeill shows that he has not forgotten the mental training and theology of his seminary years at St Patricks College Manly where he gained his Roman bachelors degree in theology in 1960.
209 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Bishop Porteous Bishop-Elect Julian Porteous who is 54 studied at the Sydney seminary and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese in 1974.
210 - Aug 2003 - US research survey: younger priests are generally more orthodox, AD2000
In a question where survey respondents were asked whether there was a homosexual subculture at the seminary or seminaries which they attended four options were given: 1) Yes definitely; 2) I think so but Im not positive; 3) I dont think so; and 4) No definitely not.
211 - Aug 2003 - Editorial: 'Do this in memory of Me', Peter Westmore
A key to obtaining holy and inspiring priests is the quality of seminary training.
212 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
The same fault lines in my life today existed the day I went to the seminary.
213 - Jul 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Peter D. Howard
Those bishops who have renewed seminary formation in keeping with Pope John Paul IIs Pastores Dabo Vobis and keep the dissenters away from re-forming their older priests have faithful priests who adhere to the rubrics preach well and thus celebrate and re-present a valid licit and holy sacrifice for all who wish to join with them.
214 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
the ongoing decline of Sunday Mass attendance now 13 percent in Brisbane the continuing shortage of priests and miniscule seminary numbers and public pressures particularly from the media burdening the task of evangelisation.
215 - Jun 2003 - Books: From Physics to Metaphysics, by Fr Francis J. Selman, Michael Casanova
Even this year while meeting with students of the major seminary of the Rome Diocese in March John Paul spontaneously recalled his secret studies of metaphysics during the Nazi occupation: I saw that metaphysics Christian philosophy gave me a new vision of the world a more profound penetration of reality.
216 - May 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Stuart J. Blackwood
When the Jesuits et al were expelled from France Teilhard at an English seminary came under the influence of another modernist priest George Tyrrell who was eventually expelled from the Jesuit order and excommunicated by the Church.
217 - May 2003 - Brisbane archdiocesan synod: challenges needing to be addressed, Peter Howard
Among important proposals which were thereby excluded were reform of the Brisbane seminary along the lines set out in John Paul IIs Pastores Dabo Vobis and the Statement of Conclusions along with a crusade for vocations; a renewal of Catholic school teacher formation in the Churchs teachings on faith and morals based on the Catechism; and in Catholic schools the rejection of content and methodology contrary to doctrine and John Paul IIs Catechesi Tradendae.
218 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier
This revival in ordinations compared with the 80s and early 90s when Perths seminary was closed is a sure sign that although Church values are publicly rejected and secular practices are widely adopted those who claim we live in a post-Christian era are premature in their judgement.
219 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
Mr McDermotts family literally sold the family farm to help purchase the former minor seminary refurbish it and develop a first-class Catholic English-speaking international college for boys aged 9 to 18 which follows the English curriculum and prepares students for the top level public examinations of that country.
220 - Mar 2003 - Letters: New springtime (letter), Errol P. Duke
This most serious self-inflicted wound from within has implicated many archbishops bishops and priests - even infiltrating into seminary formation.
221 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph the vice-rector and a lecturer in dogma at Vianney College the diocesan seminary of Wagga Wagga is serving as Chancellor for the Maronite Diocese of Australia from February 2003 for the next three years.
222 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Congregation for Catholic Education is expected to take up the same topic in a document to appear in the near future for the guidance of seminary rectors.
223 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
Fr Porteous is Rector of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd Strathfield which trains future priests for the Sydney Archdiocese and other Sydney and NSW dioceses.
224 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
Michael was rapt in the idea - only it soon became apparent that Dr Pells life would not fit well into a Brief Lives with experiences like Caritas a few small changes at Corpus Christi Seminary and Aquinas College Ballarat - all new to me and clearly warranting detailed chapters.
225 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In the Diocese of Allentown Pennsylvania which has 22 seminarians the five new men entering the college-level seminary are either 18 or 19 years old.
226 - Oct 2002 - Letters: US theologians (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Sister Agnes Cunningham SSHM on the staff of Mundelein Seminary Chicago one of the five authors of the book said I do not know on what grounds the bishops could intervene.
227 - Oct 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
John Paul II meets with Brazilian bishops Importance of sound seminary formation On 5 September Pope John Paul II received a group of prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of the Eastern Region of Brazil who had just completed their ad limina visit.
228 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore
A fellow student who attended the Melbourne seminary at the time dismissed the allegations as ridiculous and inconceivable and told me that that Dr Pell was an exemplary seminarian.
229 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Seminaries (letter), Andrew Sholl
And even if accepted the pressure on straight (or non-homosexually active) orthodox seminarians can be intolerable so that they are virtually forced out and usually not re-admitted to any other seminary as they are effectively blackballed.
230 - Sep 2002 - Vocations: Corpus Christi Seminary enrolments bounce back, Michael Gilchrist
Statistics of enrolment numbers over the period from 1972 to 2002 at Melbournes Corpus Christi Seminary - currently available on its website - provide a useful basis for analysis.
231 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Dissent (letter), Clair Tieppo
This is a grave error that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere (Meeting with US Bishops at Our Lady Queen of Angels Minor Seminary Los Angeles 16 September 1987).
232 - Aug 2002 - New study of US seminary formation exposes fundamental flaws, John S. Webster
If orthodox candidates surmount this initial obstacle they must then conform to the new model of Church promoted in many US seminary programs and courses with formation staff quick to target anyone defending Church teachings.
233 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart
Th STL is the Director of Vocations Archdiocese of Melbourne and Dean of Studies and Students Corpus Christi College Seminary Melbourne.
234 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Born in 1950 in St Louis Missouri he attended St Louis Preparatory Seminary and Cardinal Glennon College completing his studies for the priesthood at the NAC and the University of St Thomas (the Angelicum) in Rome.
235 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Modern Rite, by Mgr Klaus Gamber, Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph is Vice-rector and Dean of Studies at Vianney College seminary Wagga Wagga.
236 - Jul 2002 - Chavagnes International College for boys, Paul Russell
Originally a junior seminary founded in 1802 the site of the college is said to have been built from the proceeds of a hoard of gold coins hidden in a nearby forest by a Royalist General in the face of advancing republican troops around 1796.
237 - Jul 2002 - '60 Minutes': Archbishop George Pell puts the record straight, Archbishop George Pell
We were never in any seminary together.
238 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
A Church-sponsored commission on the seminaries has concluded that St Cuthberts College in Ushaw near Durham and St Marys College in Oscott near Birmingham should merge to create one seminary for the north and Midlands.
239 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Joseph and Nicholas have come from the seminary to be present with us tonight and may we have the joy of seeing them one day receive the anointing of this Sacred Chrism on their hands the first of a new generation of priests of the Diocese of Lismore.
240 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
I attended Catholic Schools for 13 years in the 1970s and 1980s I was involved in youth groups that were deemed successful and even attended the Provincial Seminary at Banyo for a year in the late 1980s yet at the age of 19 I could not recite the Apostles Creed.
241 - Jun 2002 - Neocatechumenal Way setting up its second Australian seminary, Richard Egan
A new diocesan and missionary seminary is being established in Sydney by the Neocatechumenal Way in response to an invitation by Archbishop George Pell.
242 - May 2002 - Books: The Forty Four: The Martyrs of the English College Rome, Christopher Quinn
In 1581 the Venerable English College in Rome was described in a sermon as the Pontifical Seminary of Martyrs.
243 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
I hope and pray that many of the functions portrayed in the priesthood of Fr Michael Hollings become manifest in the increasing numbers of those being educated at the seminary in Melbourne and I certainly wish Fr Stuart well in his important position of Director of Vocations to the Priesthood.
244 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
Students of the Good Shepherd Seminary in Sydney also joined the conference participants at the annual IMCSA dinner.
245 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Today there are 25 Neocatechumenal communities and 27 priests from the Redemptoris Mater Seminary have been ordained.
246 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Vocations Pilgrimage (letter), Martine Watkinson
Fr Rizzo will employ the thoughts and spirituality of St John Vianney the Cur de Ars as he leads his group of men and boys to many shrines monasteries and the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.
247 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope recommends wider use of Latin 40th anniversary of John XXIIIs Veterum Sapientia Pope John Paul II has recommended the use of Latin in the Roman liturgy and in seminary training.
248 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Daniel
Initially charitable works focussed on supporting the German refugees and their priests including a seminary established for dislocated seminarians at Konigstein.
249 - Mar 2002 - North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories, Zenit News Service
Orders and communities where postulants keep knocking on the door include the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter which is building a seminary in Denton Nebraska; the Legionaries of Christ whose US novitiate is in Cheshire Connecticut; the Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor Michigan; and the Sisters of St Francis of Alton Illinois.
250 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The Vietnamese Government insists on veto power over the appointment of bishops the selection of young men to enter the seminary and the appointment of parish priests.
251 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
The diocese of Suon about the third largest had a seminary with 200 students studying for the priesthood when I left in 1992.
252 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
Wrenn is Dean of the Institute of Religious Studies of St Josephs Seminary Dunwoodie New York a Masters Degree program which under the direction of Cardinal Terence Cooke he founded in 1977.
253 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
It has been observed that where a diocese is led by a bishop who is strong and public in his pastoral and moral leadership where his orthodoxy is unambiguous and where he invests resources into priestly ministry and vocations equal to or greater than lay alternatives that diocese then tends to attract more young men into the seminary.
254 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
In the seminary in Dili there are about 30 Timorese candidates for the diocesan priesthood.
255 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Previously they housed the minor seminary of the Luon Diocese founded in 1801.
256 - Nov 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas, Valentine Gallagher
Father Robert ODonnell Ph D Professor of Philosophy at the New York Archdiocesan Seminary writes: In 1879 Leo XIII (in Aeterni Patris) declared the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas to be the official philosophy of the Catholic Church and required that all candidates for the priesthood be schooled in it (Hooked on Philosophy p.
257 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
Another thing I fear is that if I left a seminary although I am orthodox now over time without proper support perhaps I might also be infected with unorthodox views.
258 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Church in Central Asia John Paul II praises seminary development Last September Pope John Paul II met with the eight bishops and apostolic administrators of Central Asia - four from Kazakhstan and four from the republics of Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - during his visit to the region.
259 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
To be a truly powerful teacher of the faith a bishop needed not only to ensure he had an excellent seminary education for his priests but to know who is intellectually and spiritually forming his future clergy what they are teaching and whether they are performing their assigned tasks.
260 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine', Archbishop Sheehan, Fr Peter Joseph, Br Christian Moe FSC
He presently works at the Corpus Christi Seminary in Melbourne.
261 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
Formerly an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a vigorous opponent of Catholicism he spent three years researching and attempting to refute the Catholic Faith to prevent friend and former seminary classmate Scott Hahn from embracing it.
262 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
Feminist trail-blazer Rosemary Ruether Professor of Applied Theology at Garret Evangelical Seminary in Evanston Illinois says in her book Women-Church Most Roman Catholic women neither can nor wish to be ordained in priesthood as presently defined.
263 - Aug 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas (letter), Valentine Gallagher
Fr ODonnell CSP holds a doctorate from the University of Louvain and is Professor of Philosophy at the New York Archdiocesan seminary.
264 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
John Vianney Seminary is orthodox.
265 - Aug 2001 - Australian scholarship for African priest
Father Philemon teaches at the Kinshasa seminary but the focus of his work is the Legion.
266 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
A new seminary has opened - the only one between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean - and already it is filled to capacity and drawing up expansion plans.
267 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Worldwide seminary numbers on increase Aid to the Church in Need plays vital role The number of seminarians worldwide increased by 2.
268 - Jul 2001 - Corpus Christi Seminary Inquiry Day
An Inquiry Day for the Corpus Christi Seminary Carlton is to take place on 5 August 2001.
269 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
Joseph Marmion was born in Dublin in 1858 and commenced his studies for the secular priesthood at Holy Cross Seminary Clonliffe in 1874.
270 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Godwin Brown
Although his term was brief his efforts and the results in many areas of Church life including the seminary liturgy religious education clergy protocols youth ministry drug rehabilitation etc have been monumental.
271 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
These included Sr Maureen OConnell immediate past Provincial of the Cabra Dominicans Sr Bernadette Kiley OP who has taught at the presently closed Adelaide seminary and a number of other Dominican Sisters from Cabra.
272 - Jun 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities: Adelaide's 'new model of church', Michael Gilchrist
Adelaide has been introducing BECs into its parish structures for almost ten years even as its seminary has shut down for lack of numbers - a predictable result of years of talk about empowering lay people to take over the running of parishes.
273 - May 2001 - Letters: Sydney appointment (letter), Frank Bellet
However in 1996 when Archbishop Pell made some drastic changes at the Corpus Christi seminary in Melbourne there were 12 seminarians for the Archdiocese.
274 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The number of seminarians in Spain has remained stable over the past decade the bishops conference reveals in the study carried out for the Day of the Seminary on 19 March.
275 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
The St Patricks Seminary awaits reforms as does the Catholic school system.
276 - Apr 2001 - Is Townsville the model for Ballarat's priest shortage?, Michael Gilchrist
Much closer to home was the small diocese of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales where Bishop Brennan had set up his own seminary and enjoyed a degree of success over the past decade in addressing the vocations crisis.
277 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Appeal from India (letter), Kevin L. Fernandes
We are a group of Catholics including a Catholic priest who was the Rector and still is a professor at the diocesan seminary.
278 - Mar 2001 - Seminary numbers up in orthodox US dioceses, Michael S. Rose
The following are extracts from his recent article on seminaries in Catholic World Report which highlight the contrasting seminary numbers for orthodox and liberal US dioceses.
279 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Those involved in this session were the Dominican Sisters from Ganmain Vianney College (the local seminary) the Australian Family Association True Love Waits and Youth Defence - a pro-life youth organisation in Sydney.
280 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
He graduated from a Catholic university in 1989 and later applied to the major seminary of his diocese.
281 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
Seminary reforms The overall liturgical picture is no doubt improving - and will further improve - in dioceses where seminary reforms have been occurring with future priests receiving a sound liturgical education.
282 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Adelaides seminary to close for 2001 Only two seminarians left Adelaides St Francis Xavier Seminary at Morphettville will not house seminarians this year.
283 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Toowoomba Diocese (letter), Maria Lossberg
I suggested that priests could be sought or accepted from other dioceses from inside or outside Australia where seminary numbers are healthy and priests can be spared - as an interim solution to the imminent dearth of priests in the Toowoomba Diocese.
284 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
In May 2000 he completed two years of formation for the priesthood at Mount St Marys Seminary in Emmitsburg Maryland and is due to continue his studies at the North American College in Rome.
285 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
Fr Francis Harman (1917-2000) entered Corpus Christi Seminary in 1934 and in September 1937 was sent to Rome to pursue his studies at Propaganda Fide College where he established enduring friendships with students from 40 countries.
286 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
Brock In Search of Belief by Sr Joan Chittister OSB (an American radical feminist) The God of Evolution by Fr Denis Edwards (a liberal Adelaide theologian) The Meaning of the Sacraments by Monika Hellwig (a feminist US academic whose writings have conflicted with Church teachings) and Reenchantment: the New Australian Spirituality by David Tacey (whose planned talk this year at the Melbourne seminary was cancelled by Archbishop Pell).
287 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Joseph Marmion - whose legacy stands in stark contrast to such an effete Christianity - was born in Dublin in 1858 and commenced his studies for the secular priesthood at Holy Cross Seminary Clonliffe in 1874.
288 - Oct 2000 - 'Call to Change' in Tasmania: but whose 'vision of Church'?, Michael Gilchrist
In Perth Wagga Wagga and Melbourne for example success has been achieved in building up the number of priests both by accepting priests from overseas who wish to settle in Australia and through greater seminary numbers.
289 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Neo-Catechumenate Way Thousands consecrate their lives to God At least 3000 young men have expressed their desire to enter the seminary and another 2000 young women to give themselves to God in the religious life following World Youth Day last August.
290 - Oct 2000 - Editorial: The Church at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
In choosing their collaborators in the diocesan administration seminary and in parishes bishops need to make these appointments with a careful eye and with great attention always giving emphasis to sanctity of life orthodoxy and pastoral competence.
291 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
First of all there is a need to equip the practising liturgist with professional skills starting in the seminary with continuing education during priestly ministry.
292 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
Your Eminence our esteemed father in Christ John Joseph I will always remember your calling me at Dunwoodie the New York Archdiocesan Seminary from Scranton where you had just recently been named Bishop.
293 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
He studied at the Corpus Christi seminary and later in Rome during the unsettling period following Vatican II.
294 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In addition to St Charles Seminary which accepts local vocations we have a Missionary Seminary also diocesan called Redemptoris Mater run by priests associated with the Neo-Catechumenate.
295 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
Br Christian Moe FSC works at Corpus Christi Seminary Melbourne.
296 - Jul 2000 - Italians in Australia: Celebrating cultural and Catholic identity, AD2000 Report
Anna Maria Barbaro a high school teacher from Queensland spoke about how Italians felt out of place in an Irish Church to begin with but have emerged to embrace both cultures while Father Max Vodola spoke about his experiences of entering the seminary as an Australian Italian.
297 - Jul 2000 - Editorial: Orthodoxy the 'wave of the future', Michael Gilchrist
The encouraging upsurge in seminary numbers in Perth Wagga Wagga and Melbourne - as has occurred in similarly orthodox seminaries overseas - highlights the fact that only through this approach will the Church be able to provide for its future needs.
298 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
There he was inspired to study for the priesthood entering St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia at age 16.
299 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Fr Gresser was born in Narromine NSW and completed his studies in theology and philosophy at the Centre for Thomistic Studies Sydney before entering the FSSP seminary in Scranton Pennsylvania.
300 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
Raised in an atmosphere of piety Francis entered Ushaw Seminary in 1870.
301 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
But I am not blaming the schools as such for the explanation lies at an earlier stage in the failure to substitute sufficient lay expertise at the level of higher education in place of seminary clerics.
302 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
Father Joseph is vice-rector at Vianney College seminary Wagga Wagga and lectures in Dogma.
303 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Many have completed undergraduate education and quite a few have gained some experience in professional life before entering the seminary.
304 - May 2000 - Editorial: Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Michael Gilchrist
They also dismiss any suggestion of orthodox reforms to seminary programs of any review of vocations promotion or of accepting priests from overseas or from other dioceses to make up shortfalls.
305 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
The same crisis can occur for a Protestant academic who converts especially if he has been teaching in a Protestant seminary or university.
306 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Early career After seminary studies in the United States the newly ordained Fr Fulton Sheen obtained a degree in philosophy at the famous Louvain University in Belgium and a degree in theology in Rome at the Angelicum and Gregorian Universities.
307 - Mar 2000 - Priestly vocations increasing in Melbourne, Fr Paul Stuart
With the entry of eight new students into the seminary for 2000 (the largest number to enter for Melbourne since 1987) there are now twenty-eight seminarians for Melbourne.
308 - Feb 2000 - Reflection: Private revelations: "Keep to what is countenanced by the Church", Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph is vice-rector of Vianney College seminary of Wagga Wagga and the editor of a revised edition of Archbishop Sheehans Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine.
309 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Conflicting views (letter), Joseph Said
In it he recalls an incident during his seminary training where a friend had told him in strict confidence that another mutual friend was going to have an abortion but did not want him to know.
310 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
The young Monaghan thought about the priesthood and spent some time in a seminary but eventually discovered that his vocation lay elsewhere.
311 - Feb 2000 - Legionaries of Christ: new order for a new millennium, Peter Westmore
He was shown over the new seminary run by the Legionaries the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum which can accommodate about 1000 seminarians.
312 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service East Timor seminary reopens Seminarians return to Dili East Timorese seminarians evacuated to Kupang in West Timor amid the post-referendum atrocities in their homeland have returned to Dili to continue their studies.
313 - Nov 1999 - Reflection: How unconditional is God's love?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Duggan SM is a New Zealand theologian author and former seminary professor.
314 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
The Bishop also looked to the Jesuits to establish a seminary for the training of diocesan priests.
315 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
In co-operation with Holy Apostles College and Seminary and with the approval of the Connecticut State Board of Higher Education courses are now available which lead to a Master of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Theology.
316 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He did very well in his studies in the Seminary and eventually received a doctorate in Philosophy and Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
317 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
Next year there will be seven young Australian men studying at the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter centre in Pennsylvania in the United States - a newly- created seminary to train priests to celebrate sacraments according to the traditional Roman rite.
318 - Aug 1999 - Vatican II and "Signs of the times": a call for a democratic Church?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Fr Duggan is a New Zealand theologian and former seminary professor.
319 - Aug 1999 - Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), Archbishop of Westminster, R.I.P., Christopher Quinn
Allen Hall his - at times notoriously liberal - seminary has a new rector appointed by Cardinal Hume who amongst other things has re- ordered the chapel so that it looks like a chapel and speaks openly and often of the importance of the ministerial priesthood.
320 - Jul 1999 - A successful French seminary that follows the Curé of Ars tradition, Francis Davidson
A French seminary under the leadership of Bishop Guy Bagnard of the Diocese of Balley that has put the priestly model of the Cur of Ars at the centre of its training program has been enjoying unusual success.
321 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
for changes in the seminary and politically incorrect stances on a range of ethical issues.
322 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Work on the Fraternitys second American seminary - dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe - is ahead of schedule.
323 - Jun 1999 - St Thomas Aquinas: philosopher for our time, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Duggan SM a New Zealand theologian and author and a former seminary professor offers the case for the continuing relevance and pride of place of the writings of St Thomas Aquinas.
324 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
15) The Bishop and his Collaborators: In choosing his collaborators in the diocesan administration in the seminary and in parishes bishops need to make these appointments with a careful eye and with great attention always giving emphasis to sanctity of life orthodoxy and pastoral competence.
325 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
During Dr Mannixs time as Archbishop of Melbourne a seminary a Catholic library several Catholic university colleges including Newman and Mannix Colleges were opened and the Catholic Education Office and the Schools Provident Fund were established.
326 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Religious education It was precisely the prospect of this New Cosmology being fed into reshaped Catholic religious education (via supportive religious) that prompted Fr George Duggan SM a theologian author and retired seminary professor to send a memorandum one month before Sister MacGilliss visit to each New Zealand bishop detailing how her views constituted pantheism (equating God with his creation) and that Catholics attending her lectures could be endangering their faith.
327 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The Society of Mary was born in the Major Seminary of Lyon France around 1816 when Marcelino entered the Seminary with Jean Claude Colin and Jean Vianney.
328 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
He has also been appointed Dean of Students at Corpus Christ Seminary after completing a Licence in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
329 - May 1999 - Editorial: Ensuring the future of the priesthood, Michael Gilchrist
This picture is reinforced by an encouraging report from the Archdiocese of Denver in the United States (page 7) where the inspiring leadership of Archbishop Charles Chaput has seen an impressive upsurge in priestly vocations and the imminent launch of a new seminary to accommodate them.
330 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
Dr Hayden Ramsay a young philosopher from Scotland (and a seminary lecturer and adviser to Archbishop Pell on philosophical matters) spoke on Faith and Reason: a Philosophy for Life based on the Holy Fathers new encyclical.
331 - Apr 1999 - A new R.E. consultancy service for the Church
Gerard is no stranger to adult education as he has given talks at a number of Thomas More Summer Schools and lectured for five years in catechetical theory and practice at Wagga Waggas seminary Vianney College.
332 - Apr 1999 - Extending general absolution: why such a move is out of the question, Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph is the vice-rector at Vianney College the diocesan seminary of Wagga Wagga having recently studied for his doctorate in Rome.
333 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Government officials judge the candidates qualities sets the number for each seminary and can veto the assignment of the seminarians to parishes.
334 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
The moral theology I had studied in the seminary had given me solid principles and a way to apply them in normal times.
335 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
At present we are living in what was the old Marist Fathers Seminary (more recently known as the Marist Centre) in Toongabbie NSW.
336 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
He attended a high school seminary run by the Capuchins.
337 - Mar 1999 - Changing church interiors: what is at stake, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Duggan is a New Zealand theologian author and former seminary professor who has been a regular contributor to AD2000 and other religious periodicals.
338 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
As for the third area governing in choosing their collaborators in the diocesan administration seminary and in parishes bishops need to make these appointments with a careful eye and with great attention always giving emphasis to sanctity of life orthodoxy and pastoral competence.
339 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
Confirming Vatican IIs recommendations he urges the importance of this philosophical formation for those who one day in their pastoral life will have to address the aspirations of the contemporary world and understand the causes of certain behaviour in order to respond in appropriate ways; and he notes with surprise and displeasure the lack of interest of some theology teachers and seminary professors in sound philosophy.
340 - Oct 1998 - Perth Archdiocese vocations: an 'optimistic picture', Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
We have steadily growing numbers in St Charles Seminary Guildford and a handful of students overseas mainly in Rome.
341 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore
In late 1942 he joined an underground seminary and he was ordained a priest just four years later after the Nazi invaders had been replaced by the Soviet occupation.
342 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal O'Connor of New York in Australia as the Pope's representative, Michael Gilchrist
My personal calculation is he said that in the New York Archdiocese by 2004 when I will be no longer Archbishop we will have a full seminary again.
343 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist
Commenting on the absence for 1997 of even one new seminarian for the whole of Queensland at the Pius XII Seminary Banyo its Rector had said this was not a cause for alarm suggesting that some of the more than one hundred people studying theology at the Brisbane College of Theology (part of which occupies the seminary premises) might later proceed to the priesthood.
344 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile in progressive Brisbane the Banyo Seminary received not one new recruit for 1997 and Mass attendances continued to fall.
345 - Mar 1997 - Local opposition to Corpus Christi seminary reforms
In two of Victorias regional dioceses priests have been expressing - almost simultaneously - organised opposition to the reforms due to take effect in Melbournes Corpus Christi seminary.
346 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
This was emphasised by a news item in Brisbanes Courier Mail which reported that there were no new candidates for the priesthood at Brisbanes Banyo Seminary from all of Queenslands five dioceses.
347 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
The seminary is training a healthy number of candidates for the priesthood.
348 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
In Adelaide - as in much of Australia - barely 15% of Catholics attend weekly Mass and the seminary is almost empty.
349 - Sep 1996 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church', by Romano Amerio, Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph is a priest of the Wagga Wagga Diocese and teaches at St John Vianney College the diocesan seminary.
350 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
In the Seminary presently there are 14 Melbourne students over an 8 year span of study.
351 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
But in the First World the number of reverently and correctly celebrated new Masses continues to decline as older generally more orthodox priests retire and the younger products of new wave seminary liturgical formation attempt to update parishes.
352 - May 1996 - Archbishop Little warns priests on flawed 'priestless liturgies' document
The document causing the Archbishop concern was produced by Fr Frank OLoughlin liturgy professor at the Catholic Theological College (incorporating the Corpus Christi Seminary) following a two-day meeting of the Office of Worship at the Seminary.
353 - Feb 1996 - St Patrick's College, Manly, seminary becomes a hotel school!, Tony Abbott
It is the biggest oldest and most celebrated seminary in Australia - and by providing an alternative to training in Dublin or Rome was midwife to the birth of a local priesthood.
354 - Jun 1995 - Why Vatican rejected 'inclusive' New Revised Standard Version Bible, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
is a retired New Zealand seminary professor and author of the apologetics book Beyond Reasonable Doubt Daughters of St Paul.
355 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
Priestly vocations Even more impressive is the level of priestly vocations in Lincoln thanks to Bishop Flavins capable leadership - so much so that a new seminary for the diocese is now under consideration.
356 - Apr 1995 - Why Virginia's Arlington Diocese has no priest shortage, Michael Gilchrist
During the period 1994-95 nine men were accepted for seminary training with a possible ten additional men expected for the Fall of 1995.
357 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Danger In 1902 a foreign student came to the seminary of Anagnie 50 miles outside Rome to commence studies there.
358 - Dec 1994 - RE syllabus based on new Catechism: Wagga Wagga diocese sets pace for Australia, Bishop George Pell
The Wagga Wagga diocese is already noteworthy for having recently established its own seminary (with eight seminarians now in residence two external students for religious orders and two studying in Rome).
359 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
The September edition of AD2000 included a report The New Catechism: Analysis and Commentary published by the Catholic Institute of Sydney which also incorporates the Manly Seminary.
360 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
His observations are a strong indictment of the present system of seminary training (barring a couple of exceptions) and call for prompt radical reforms in line with Church requirements if the continuing slide is to be arrested and reversed.
361 - Aug 1994 - Religious orders, associations refuse to accept 'definitive' Papal teaching
The meeting will be held at Manly Seminary in Sydney.
362 - Jul 1994 - Books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church', Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Peter Joseph is a priest of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga and lectures in Scripture and at the diocesan seminary Vianney College.
363 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
These include masters of university colleges seminary professors headmasters of schools theologians and philosophers.
364 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
Nowhere in the document is there any hint that reforming policies pursued over the past 20 years in liturgy religious education seminary and religious life biblical studies and moral teaching might be contributors to the disaster represented by the Mass attendance statistics.
365 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
For example in the area of religious vocations in the last five years 19 young men were ordained priests and currently 46 young men are in seminary studies for the Diocese of Lincoln.
366 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
He has gone out and got vocations: by means of prayer stating orthodox teaching and ensuring sound seminary training.
367 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
He teaches Scripture and Dogma at the diocesan seminary Vianney College.
368 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
He gave approval for the renovation of an old brick building in the grounds of the archdiocesan St Francis Seminary; he moved in 1991 (Spring).
369 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
Prior to that he lectured at the National Seminary of Papua New Guinea.
370 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
But with many seminary professors and seminarians nuns brothers and moderately well-educated laity his doubts concerning the validity of Scripture sources are easily read as doubts as to the validity of the Catholic truths themselves.
371 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
Some National Bishops Conferences and individual bishops around the world have paid little more than lip service to Papal instructions and teachings notably on seminary training liturgy and catechetics.
372 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
Liturgically the seminary was to be exclusively traditional-rite.
373 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
It is interesting to note that it was hardly ever sung in the Corpus Christi seminary of old probably because the Jesuits thought it was a bit down-market and that its somewhat vulgar emotionalism would not stand up in the long run.
374 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
Santamaria delivered to the annual conference of the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy at Corpus Christi Seminary Clayton on 29 August 1991.
375 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
For if outside factors - materialism family breakdown (and smaller families) sexual permissiveness religious scepticism and secularism - are limiting or hindering vocations how much stronger would need to be a seminarys stabilising power to counter these factors.
376 - Aug 1990 - Christians and the 'Green' prophets of doom: the need for scepticism, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg who is a Baptist is a graduate from Wheaton College and the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the Unites States and has had extensive experience in research and library work in the Netherlands and US.
377 - Aug 1990 - Editorial: Dissent in Catholic academia is 'out' says Vatican Instruction, B.A. Santamaria
Negative response That this situation had not altered since 1967 was evident in the overwhelmingly negative response of the Churchs academic establishments to the Vaticans release in February 1989 of the Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity to be taken by seminary rectors teachers of theology and other responsible educational figures.
378 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist
The priorities would be clear and urgent: falling Mass attendances empty confessionals the rapid decline of priestly and religious vocations defective catechetics courses a breakdown in family life little understanding and/or observation of the Churchs moral teachings widespread liturgical abuses and much unorthodox content in seminary adult education and teachers college courses.
379 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
Mr Kennedy examines ecumenism relations between New Zealands Catholic bishops and the Vatican the priesthood and the incursions of feminism into seminary training.
380 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
Although he later left his home to join a seminary and spent several years studying in Rome his origins ensured that his outlook on life and his physical appearance were not quite so bourgeois as the hero in Kiesers film.
381 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
The present college began in a leased seminary in 1973 before moving in 1978 to its present Santa Paula campus (about 100km north of Los Angeles) thanks to the generosity of an oil company.
382 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
I mean the seminary in London is full of young trainee priests very keen on orthodoxy and on liturgy and they have terrible struggles with their kind of post-conciliar trendy professors who are always trying to impose on them unorthodox ecumenical fashionable liberation theologian-style ideas and it is the young seminarians themselves who wont accept these and want to go back to a much more solid basis for the Church.
383 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
One of the more enduring examples to hold the line has been the major seminary established by Bishop Gijsen of Roermond in 1974.
384 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
That a considerable proportion of Catholic university and seminary teachers had departed radically from some of the most fundamental and sacred teachings of the Christian faith was the theme developed at considerable length by Thomas Sheehan formerly Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago in his review of Hans Kungs Eternal Life?