[Hermann the Cherusker]

What you write is correct. The Philadelphia (St. Charles Borromeo) and Baltimore (Mt. St. Michael) seminaries are full, not just with local men, and men sent from other diocese, but men who have left places like Rockville Circus to study for a real Catholic Diocese.

Orthodoxy attracts, and heterodoxy repels.

The number of vocations probably does not differ that greatly, although individual parishes can be exceptions, as ThomasMore can tell you (and I can tell you too - the two indult parishes I've belonged to - St. Boniface in Pittsburgh and Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ both have 3 or 4 men in the seminary).

[american colleen]

Do you have to get a dispensation or something similar from your bishop in order to attend a seminary in another diocese?

And if so, wouldn't the would be seminarian have to explain why he doesn't want to go to the local seminary and is choosing to go elsewhere?

Which might explain the underlying animosity directed at a bishop like Bruskewicz?

[ninenot]

FWIW, the Church of St. Agnes in St. Paul produces vocations at a remarkable clip in an otherwise barren area.

[ArrogantBustard]

Baltimore (Mt. St. Michael)

That would be Mount St. Mary's, in Emmittsburg Md. There's also a "St. Mary's Seminary", in Baltimore. Michael S. Rose had a few interesting (and derogatory) things to say about it.

[sitetest]

Dear Hermann,

Mount St. Mary's is shared by the Archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington.

Most of our diocesan seminaries in Washington who go to seminary locally go to the Mount. Our Knights of Columbus Council recently gave them a donation to help expand their facilities to accommodate more seminarians. ;-)


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