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Christ the King Seminary was founded by the Franciscans in the 1800s at St. Bonaventure University. It was relocated to a suburb of Buffalo in 1974 due to falling enrollment at their school, as well as at the former diocesan St John Vianney Seminary, which it replaced.
The immediate reasons for closure were financial losses.
I have known countless priests, seminarians and former seminarians who went there. I never heard of sexual concerns prior to last year.
For decades the seminary was known for extreme liberalism in Theology and politics. According to my pastor there was very little effort at spiritual formation. Seminarians would hide their rosaries. The seminary was allegedly vague and ambiguous on Prolife and doctrinal issues but dogmatic on Liberation Theology and Peace and Justice.
A year ago at a prolife gathering unrelated to the seminary a seminarian told me of an instructor who was ousted for being conservative.
Perhaps this was one of the few survivors of the liberal Post Vatican 2 era, which dominated priestly formation for a few decades. Sadly the attention will all be about sex and the Diocesan bankruptcy.
Christ the King Seminary was founded by the Franciscans in the 1800s at St. Bonaventure University. It was relocated to a suburb of Buffalo in 1974 due to falling enrollment at their school, as well as at the former diocesan St John Vianney Seminary, which it replaced.
The immediate reasons for closure were financial losses.
I have known countless priests, seminarians and former seminarians who went there. I never heard of sexual concerns prior to last year.
For decades the seminary was known for extreme liberalism in Theology and politics. According to my pastor there was very little effort at spiritual formation. Seminarians would hide their rosaries. The seminary was allegedly vague and ambiguous on Prolife and doctrinal issues but dogmatic on Liberation Theology and Peace and Justice.
A year ago at a prolife gathering unrelated to the seminary a seminarian told me of an instructor who was ousted for being conservative.
Perhaps this was one of the few survivors of the liberal Post Vatican 2 era, which dominated priestly formation for a few decades. Sadly the attention will all be about sex and the Diocesan bankruptcy.
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