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Psychological Evaluations Are a Hidden Key to the Seminary Renaissance, by Anthony Isacco – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Anthony Isacco, National Catholic Register, July 31, 2025

Anthony Isacco, Ph.D., is program director, professor and head of clinical research at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

COMMENTARY: Once dismissed as a formality, psychological evaluations are now central to discerning and forming future priests.

I recently attended a seminary advisory board meeting, where I was asked to discuss my experience conducting psychological evaluations of seminary applicants. After my brief overview, a bishop bluntly stated, “Back in my day, the psychological evaluations were a joke. We all sat around joking about them. They are certainly not a joke now.”

The bishop’s sentiment is in line with national trends across seminaries. Seminaries routinely use comprehensive psychological evaluations as an important gatekeeping tool. The evaluation is one contributing factor to what the National Catholic Register has dubbed a “seminary renaissance” in the United States. …

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