CNA/CWR: Involve more women in seminary formation, urges Vatican cardinal
What the Latin churches need is not continuing institution-guarding in the name of "openness" and "fempowerment." What is needed is genuine reform before there is a total collapse of those churches as a "public institution." What is needed is a reconsideration of seminaries, especially during a time of shrinking diocesan budgets and low numbers of potential vocations. Women are not needed in seminary formation; those who are considering holy orders should be working in a parish during their formation, and here they can be scrutinized as well as learning how to relate to others. If there is a problem with "human" or "integral" development for Latin seminarians, it is a problem that women are not going to solve, nor by academics or bureaucrats, for that matter. Not only that but it is clericalism for clerics to think that they are the only judges of what is necessary for human development, and unfortunately many of them are getting advice from those who wish to advance a certain agenda against tradition and the Divine Law. In fact, many of these clerics are the wrong sort of men to whom the formation of men as men should be entrusted.
The Latin seminary is perhaps the last development of the Latin churches as an institutionalized existence during a period of urbanization which has exceeded scale and limit. In the future it is probably not sustainable in many areas, and whether it is even ideal for regions marked by diversity of peoples and cultures is debatable.
Really really related:
CNA/CWR: 2020 priest ordination class is slightly smaller, more diverse, survey finds
Just wait until next year: probably numbers will continue to decline. More “diversity” means that the Latin churches are unable to attract vocations from white Americans in diverse blue urban mass population centers. There is a reason for that.
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