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...seminarians now studying in Rome, more than half reside at the North American College, founded in 1858 and now occupying modern quarters on the Janiculum Hill overlooking St. Peter's. Until recently, the North American had just about the stiffest discipline of any of the national colleges: students could not talk at meals or visit each other's rooms, were only allowed to leave the college in groups of three. "It's like the Russian guards in Berlin," explained one seminarian. "If one tries to get away, the other two can shoot him." Things have gradually eased...
Capital Ways. For the seminarian, the years in Rome constitute a unique opportunity to 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...
First defendant was Thomas Coleman, 56, a pudgy former highway department employee, who had already been acquitted of the shotgun slaying of Episcopal Seminarian Jonathan Daniels, and was subsequently charged with wounding Daniels' companion, Roman Catholic Priest Richard Morrisroe. Though the priest had been blasted in the back, Coleman was indicted only for "assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit...
...delighted with your excellent article. Writer John Elson has put all of us readers in his debt for presenting such a complex subject so well." A United Church of Christ minister stationed in the Philippines thought it "another fine review of contemporary theology." From an about-to-graduate Illinois seminarian (Concordia) came a discerning thought: "Paul wrote: 'I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.' (1 Corinthians 9:22). Perhaps your cover story will help both my classmates and myself become more shrewd discerners of the time in which...
...Catholics last week twice picketed the cardinal's residence and the near by seminary, and organized a four-day Easter prayer vigil on behalf of the seminarians' demands. "The cardinal has a bull by the tail now," said the mother of one seminarian, "and he doesn't know what...