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Seminaries as live-in establishments
July 19th, 2010 by admin
The organization of modern seminary institutions was a firsthand final result of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent. This reform insisted on the enrichment of the training of clergy by way of producing seminaries as live-in establishments which would be below the immediate command of ranking clergy, Christian Degrees . The conception of minor seminaries to prepare adolescent boys for the priesthood followed this original movement. A seminary framework named the Tridentine was that of a live in monastic community where lifestyle and prayer were closely supervised and disciplined as a way to rectifying pre-Reformation maltreatments among the clergy.