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...February, Pope Paul named France's progressive Archbishop Gabriel Garrone as second-in-command of the conservative Congregation of Seminaries, which keeps a close watch on the curriculums of the Roman schools. Last week another hopeful change took place: the venerable Greg got a new rector, French Canadian Jesuit Hervé Carrier, 45. Sociologist Carrier, who studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne, has a number of changes in mind for the university's regime, including the substitution of discussion groups for some lectures and the introduction of more field research...
Rome's seminary system began to take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study...
Catholics & Medics. There are some exceptions to the pattern of bleakness. Roman Catholic institutions, such as Buenos Aires' Catholic University and Colombia's Jesuit-run Javeriana Pontifical University, generally offer better and more disciplined education. The continent's medical schools-notably those at São Paulo and at Mexico's National Autonomous University-are often topflight. Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is excellent...
...another's sacraments. Catholics have historically refused to acknowledge the validity of such Protestant spiritual acts as ordination, confirmation and celebration of the Eucharist, although they do not question Protestant baptisms or marriages.* In the current issue of the in terdenominational Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Dutch Jesuit Frans Josef van Beeck, 36, finds a basis for arguing that Catholics can give full credit and validity to any or all of the Protestant spiritual acts...
Essential Requirements. Van Beeck, who is director of studies of the Dutch Jesuit Province, notes that traditionally the Roman Catholic Church has insisted on three essential requirements for sacraments: They must be celebrated in a true church, the doctrine underlying them must be sound, and those administering them must be priests in the apostolic succession - that is, ordained by bishops who are spiritual successors of Christ's first followers. Because they fulfill all three conditions, the sacraments of the Orthodox Church have always been recognized by Rome as valid...