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The Church needs better seminaries To tackle the sexual abuse crisis, the Church must reform its seminaries, argued Fr Thomas Berg in the Washington Post.
Fr Berg, vice-rector at St Joseph’s seminary in Yonkers, New York, said the current system was “highly inadequate” and that seminaries had “often failed miserably in preparing men for ministry, and many still fall far short of the goal of forming happy, healthy, holy priests”.
He said seminary formators considered 2018 a “watershed moment” to “insist on long-overdue adjustments”, given “heightened concern” about the wellbeing of seminarians following the McCarrick affair and other scandals.
