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The training of a priest: (our seminaries) an essay on clerical training

CONTENTS. PART I.- THE STANDARD. CHAPTER I. AN EXPLANATION. The essay an inquiry into means, methods, and standards. Clerical training of fifty years ago now out of date. Danger that the new seminaries may continue it. The American boy is not a European. He must be trained from his own starting-point, 8 CHAPTER II. A PRACTICAL STANDARD. The religious and the secular clergy. Increasing power of the secular priesthood. Its training should not be inferior. Students are trained without strict reference to their environment. The religious and political convictions of the American nation. The priesthood has neglected it. The racial composition of the Catholic American body. The seminaries should provide the mission with a priest who is an educated gentleman, of sound constitution, fitted for public life, acquainted and in sympathy with bis environment, and imbued with the missionary spirit, 8 CHAPTER III. THE COLLEGES. Our colleges and seminaries have no common understanding. The colleges stick to ancient methods. Charges brought against the colleges. Barnum methods of advertising. Poor entrance examinations. Excuses for deficiencies. The college course does not exhaust student's capacit

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