[Salvation]

**Franciscan University of Steubenville, a university explicit in its orthodoxy, and ridiculed for it by larger schools, it had a smaller theology faculty but the largest number of undergraduates in the country, at the time, as I recall, 140.**

The seminary in Oregon has 197 seminarians. Something is going right here.

[saradippity]

Do you know how many of those seminarians are from Bishop Vasa's diocese? I have read some of his writing on different subjects and I think he is remarkable.

I especially appreciated that he required all of his catechists to sign statements attesting to their commitment to Catholic teachings. What a hullabaloo he caused. They howled at his being so unreasonable as to require that Catholic teachers believed and followed Catholic teaching. Imagine the chutzpah of that shepherd!!

[InterestedQuestioner]

"The seminary in Oregon has 197 seminarians. Something is going right here."

The seminary at Mt. Angel is actually the seminary for quite a few dioceses, so those aren't all homegrown vocations.

However, as anyone who knows anything at all about the most beautiful state in the Union can tell you, ;-) that seminary is absolutely gorgeous and well worth a visit to anyone who happens to be in the area. Stop by St. Mary's Church at the bottom of the hill before heading up to the Abbey, and be sure to visit the Seminary library.