Harvard in 1636, and Yale in 1701, for example, started largely as seminaries.
You have just imagined the relationship between the Christian Church and her seminaries.
Benedict also announced an apostolic visitation of certain Irish dioceses, seminaries, and congregations.
My own denomination is in the midst of a massive schism, theologically fomented in one of our more conservative seminaries.
In the United States the Church has even resorted to advertising to try to fill the empty places in the seminaries.
Most are young students at the mosque's seminaries for males and females.
Many secular Israelis object to the exemptions from army service given to students at religious seminaries or yeshivas and the large state subsidies that their institutions receive.
Tim Winter, an influential British convert to Islam, believes that for all their narrow intensity, the British Deobandi seminaries won't foster violence: their ethos is cautious and traditional.
Within 150 km are scores of monasteries, seminaries and altars.
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Pushing the clerics out of electoral politics and back into their secluded seminaries is advocated by progressive religious intellectuals as a way of ensuring the long-term health of the Islamic system.
He said the diocesan college he attended in the United States -- a type of minor seminary -- was designed to prepare students for their commitments at major seminaries if they decided to continue their studies.
Contributing factors to the crisis can include inadequate procedures for determining suitable priesthood candidates, insufficient moral and spiritual formation in seminaries, and "misplaced concern for the reputation of the church and the avoidance of scandal, " the pope said.
"They were obviously making changes from the middle of the century -- in the '30s, '40s and '50s - when the seminaries were packed full, but probably after the whole peace revolution and the sexual revolution guys obviously started having a lot of second thoughts, " he said.
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