U.S. Father David Toups, third from right, speaks with young men from New Zealand and the U.S. at the vocations expo at World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, July 18, 2008, when he worked as associate ...

In January, NCR began an occasional series on seminary formation in which we attempt to answer how priests are being formed, who is teaching them and if seminaries are adapting to the new wave of ...

Vatican Cardinal: Involve More Women in Seminary Formation In a recent interview, the Canadian cardinal said he believed that “the experience of collaborating with women on an equal level helps the ...

In the wake of recent reports concerning widespread sexual harassment and sexual abuse at seminaries, a seminary professor has suggestions for how the seminary process could improve. Father Thomas ...

Seminaries and their formators are beginning to rethink what formation should look like in the U.S. following reports that enrollment at graduate-level seminaries is continuing to decline. The fall ...

Existing formation programs are not preparing priests and other pastoral workers to be leaders in a church with an Amazonian and indigenous face, according to bishops participating in the synod for ...

Your first year at Bethel Seminary, you took a course in hermeneutics. You studied the Old and New Testaments, theology, church history. Then you took the required course in spiritual and personal ...

reasons and desires for one´s choices and action. Significant factors, among others, include love of God and neighbor, the desire to serve, faith, spirituality, and vocation. C. Skills Seminary ...

Dawn Eden Goldstein graduating with her Doctorate in Sacred Theology. (Credit: University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary.) Listen ROME – Several women theologians who teach in ...

The Rev. Stuart Smeltzer, left, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Wichita, and the Rev. Michael Simone, director of vocations for the Diocese of Wichita, stand in front of the future St. Joseph House of ...