Report highlights ‘startling disconnect’ between seminary formators, psychological experts

“Providing access to appropriate psychotherapy within the formation process more fully serves the seminarian.”

A new report highlights the growing mental health challenges that seminarians face and the need for better psychological care in seminaries. The report, from the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, also calls for bishops to focus on the quality of seminarians, rather than the number of men in seminary formation for their dioces…