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Twenty-nine men who have been called to seminary have moved into the Blessed Stanley Rother House of Formation, or Rother House, for the new propaedeutic stage of priestly formation at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Following a week of orientation, the Seminary held a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony on August 22 in which Archbishop William E. Lori, S.T.D., S’77, blessed every room in the building with Holy Water. The event, appropriately held on the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, include...

The Congregation for Clergy has given its approval to new norms for the training of seminarians in the US.

The case came as an unhappy shock to Catholics all over the United States who might have hoped that years of procedural changes would have put an end to the ordination of priests like the Rev. Robert McWilliams.