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He fought against the admission of dissenters without a test to the universities, which he described as seminaries for the established church.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

Finally the Pope turned to young people in seminaries or houses of formation.

Benedict XVI on Europe, Communism, hope, faith, and freedom

Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles.

August 10th, 2007

The Vatican ruling on homosexuals in the seminaries is interesting to other than gay-rights hawks.

Think Progress » The Attack Dog Presidency

It says that spiritual directors and confessors in seminaries "have the duty to dissuade" any candidates "who show deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from joining the priesthood.

11/23/2005

In purely theological matters they will be educated as in Latin seminaries, if not actually sent there for lectures, but in the Oriental church rites, discipline, liturgical language, music, and customs the proposed seminary will fill a place for the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

Apart from these and the English girls in French seminaries it was estimated ten years after Smollett’s sojourn there that there were twenty-four English families in residence.

Travels through France and Italy

I think we've got to recognize that the seminaries are the seedbed of the ideas of the church, and in some ways are the seedbed for ideas of value in the community.

Oral History Interview with J. Randolph Taylor, May 23, 1985. Interview C-0021. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

At first they lasted only ten days, but in extending them by degrees to fifteen or twenty days, then to one, two, or three months before each order, the bishops eventually prolonged the stay of their clerics to two or three years between philosophy and the priesthood and there were what were called seminaries d'ordinands and later grands seminaries, when lesser ones were founded.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner