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By Rev. Thomas V. Berg, First Things - As Deacon James Keating puts it so well, “without committing to integrate human maturation, spiritual development, intellectual acuity, and pastoral charity within the man himself, a seminary risks simply being a school.” Seminaries must see the formation of the interior man as their central purpose… Seminaries that focus too heavily on academics, whose formators lack the skills, drive, and art of mentoring, are in fact creating unsafe havens for seminarians….

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - Have we hit bottom yet?  If we have, I may live to see at least the beginning of the recovery.  That would please me.  But I fear we haven’t hit bottom.  There may be worse to come... But what can possibly be worse than what has already happened?  Many things, among them a refusal to deal frankly with the issue of homosexuality in the priesthood and the episcopacy.  I’m not speaking only of the horrendous problem of priests who are active homosexuals; I’m speaking also of clergy who, while not themselves homosexual, have an undue sympathy for homosexuality.