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Dangerous disconnects in Catholic teaching?

Seminary formation and Catholic theology are becoming increasingly cut off from the real lives of Catholics, and not enough is being done to remedy this, with married priests being much higher on the agenda sheet.

This is a real problem, wrote the academic Massimo Faggioli at Commonweal. “Seminary life is more about personal, psychological, and spiritual formation apart from the contemporary world of knowledge than it is about the preparation of candidates for the intellectual challenges of preaching and witnessing the Gospel in a time when the Church faces such strong headwinds.”