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Article: Vincentians give up running seminaries: archbishops in Denver, St. Louis take charge.(Denver, Colorado; St. Louis, Missouri)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 25, 1995
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A historic commitment by Vincentian priests to seminary administration in the Midwest and Western provinces of the United States is coming to an end, a victim of the precipitous decline in vocations over the past 30 years.
As a result of the realignment, conservative archbishops with close ties to the Vatican are likely to be exercising tighter control over the education of future priests.
The recent moves, however, do not always fall neatly along a liberal-conservative divide. They are rooted in changes that have rocked the priesthood in the past 30 years and in difficult questions about the future direction of seminaries in the United States.
Two of ...