HIS-Press-Service, 1981 (6. évfolyam, 19-21. szám)

1981-03-01 / 19. szám

HIS Press Service No.19, March 1981

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The Role of the Catholic High Schools in Priestly Vocations

The institution referred to as the "minor seminary" filled two functions in the past. Since they were Church-run institutions, they constituted a type of financial support which enabled boys coming from financially poorer backgrounds, who were interested in becoming priests, to complete their high school education.

On the other hand, these schools provided these future theologians with knowledge helpful to them in their later field of studies. After the minor seminaries were forbidden in Hungary, it soon became evident that appropriate religious training for future priestly candidates could hardly be provided in the State schools, which offered an atheistically orientated curriculum. As a result, the Catholic Church soon began to use the remaining Catholic high schools to educate boys interested in the priesthood; in this way, the Church was also able to provide these persons with needed financial support. It is also quite normal that in these schools run by members of religious orders some of the students will become interested in the religious life. A list of the seminarians studying in a seminary during the 1979/80 school year shows that almost half of the seminarians (somewhat less among diocesan seminarians, and far more among religious order seminarians) came from Catholic high schools.

In the

From the Catholic High Schools in

Seminary

Győr

Pannonhalma

Esztergom

Szentendre

Budapest

Kecskemet

Total

Central

Semi nary

7

6

6--5

24

! Eger

3

1

10-1

18

33

i Esztergom

1

1

5

1

1-9

! Győr

12

5

3--20

I Nyíregyháza

2

1

8--2

13

i Szeged

1

2

7-1

12

23

1 Benedictines

8

6

1

15

: Franciscans

1

8

1

10

J

i Piarists

!

10

4

14

j Total

35

22

48

2

13

41

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