[sinkspur]

Well, you and I disagree about minor seminaries. There are only about one or two of them left in the United States, so I'd like to hear your justification of concentrating children in boarding schools under the guise of making them priests.

[traditionalist]

I do not know enough about minor seminaries to argue any position regarding them.

My comment was not directed at your position on minor seminaries per se. It was directed at your flippant dismissal of the value of such seminaries, which are an element of extrinsic tradition. While one who esteems and cherishes extrinsic tradition might seem seek to reform it, such a person would never speak so irreverently about it as did you.

[ninenot]

Actually, the purpose is to make them high-school graduates who have a better-than-average understanding of Catholicism.

It's an excellent 'washout' vehicle and (as it was operated in Milwaukee) the washouts were in no way painted with a scarlet letter.'

A LOT depends on the Bishop and the administrators, Sink...