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Charlotte seminary changes prompt objections, ‘Martin fatigue’

"I think it is pretty widespread that people are just frustrated."

Michelle La Rosa
Dec 19, 2025
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A change to priestly formation programs in the Diocese of Charlotte will see seminarians spend a year as high school or middle school teachers. Charlotte’s Bishop Michael Martin says the move will give seminarians a chance to experience the “ordinary demands” of Catholic lay life, and to better understand how to teach the Catholic faith.

But the plan has…

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