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Dear Wonder Warthog,

"I don't doubt that there is some training involved in the 'specifically Roman Catholic' nuances, but you have to remember that most of these folks have very likely studied most (or all) of those issues on their own before ever deciding to make the switch."

Okay.

But that wasn't what was communicated by:

"I'm pretty sure they do, but I'm also pretty sure it is a 'formality' kind of ceremony (certainly validly sacramental, but not like having to go thru seminary again), since the academic requirements and training for the priesthood in both Anglicanism and Catholicism are so similar."

I was responding to what you previously said that it's pretty much a "formality."

Up to two years of additional training is more than a formality.

By the way, highly-Anglo-Catholic, highly-trained, highly-researched Fr. Al Kimel, who spent a couple of years on-line blogging about his personal introspection about, study of, and journey toward Catholicism, required nearly a year and a half from the time he was received into the Catholic Church until he was ordained a Catholic priest.


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[Wonder Warthog]

"...required nearly a year and a half from the time he was received into the Catholic Church until he was ordained a Catholic priest."

So?? And precisely how much of that "..almost year and a half.." was devoted to training? I'm certain it was NOT a full-time effort.