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Word: alfonsiana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Seminary Town | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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