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New PPF means new beginning, and new ending, for seminary formation

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JD Flynn
Apr 25, 2022
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The “spirituality year” or “prodaeduetic year” house at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver. Credit: sjvdenver/wikimedia. CC BY SA 4.0

After the Vatican’s approval of new norms for seminary formation, U.S. vocations directors and seminary rectors have already begun the difficult job of adapting to a new paradigm, which thinks in stages of Christian disci…

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