[redleghunter]

Says something about those with theology degrees from Catholic seminary no?

If you continue to read he conducted his post graduate education in Rome no less. Was the post graduate program at the Vatican flag ship shoddy on rooting out a poor student?

So we can conclude the Vatican book store must have missed a few shipments of the Latin Vulgate.

So now we have two testimonies, one of a nun of over 20 years and a priest of an intelligentsia order telling us the Bible was cloistered and a servant of Rome. And when both cracked open a Bible, they found the Truth waiting.

>>>>Break<<<<

Gamecock I look forward to the next installment. Thanks for posting.

[daniel1212]

So we can conclude the Vatican book store must have missed a few shipments of the Latin Vulgate.

From http://www.askacatholic.com/_WebPostings/Answers/2010_01JAN/2010JanDoTheyStudyTheWholeBible.cfm

Hi, guys — Does a priest study the whole Bible in seminary?

Dear Santina,

Thank you for your question. You hit on one of my pet peeves.

Unfortunately, priests don't study the whole Bible in seminary. In fact, they come no where near studying enough Scripture. They do study several years of theology and philosophy. The Theology classes will have some Scripture, as will the courses on the Church Fathers. They are lucky if, over their 4 or 5 years in seminary, they get about five courses on Scripture. To make matters worse, those courses are usually not about what the text actually means, rather they are courses based on the Historical Critical Method of exegesis. In other words, they waste too much time trying to figure out who wrote a certain book or reconstructing history from the text.

It's a very sad state of affairs. The Historical Critical Method is a useful tool, but studying the method, does not replace studying the Bible. Unfortunately, most of priests are biblically illiterate for all intents and purposes. This, of course, explains the doctrinally insipid and uninspiring slop they serve every Sundays from the pulpit.

To put it more bluntly, the average Catholic priest in America today would look for Zephania on the spice rack before he realized it wasn't an ingredient for tomato sauce, but the ninth of twelve minor prophets, who probably wrote in the 7^th century B.C.

[CynicalBear]

>>So now we have two testimonies, one of a nun of over 20 years and a priest of an intelligentsia order telling us the Bible was cloistered and a servant of Rome.<<

The importance of God's word is obviously secondary to the word of Rome.