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Fifty years ago most priesthood candidates entered the seminary in high school or college and received the philosophical and other academic prerequisites for graduate theological studies in a college seminary setting. In the past two or three decades, however, more and more seminary applicants have come in with college degrees that included little or none of those prerequisites.

And judging from some of the sermons and statements issued by the USCCB, there are men who have been in the priesthood 30 or 40 years or more who still lack these prerequisites of basic Catholic knowledge.

This is why you can't have liberals, non-Catholics, and space-cadet illuminati eggheads from Harvard and Yale running Catholic higher education, making decisions on curriculum relating to Catholicism. Only real Catholics, educated by real Catholics, should be in Catholic classrooms and lecture halls. Or seminaries.