tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post3559399558362151546..comments2023-09-26T00:42:29.508-07:00Comments on Caritas in Veritate: The Metropolitan Seminary of WarsawFather John Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581732723849634398noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post-31499771657792567122010-02-15T14:22:39.658-08:002010-02-15T14:22:39.658-08:00Moreover, a quick google tells me 14,7% of Poles h...Moreover, a quick google tells me 14,7% of Poles have higher education (which means a five-year master's degree). Given that the percentage of Poles entering higher education has grown hugely in the last decade or two (and thus the percentage of people with degrees in the relevant generation will be lower), I don't think you can read anything about the difficulty of getting higher education into the educational background stats :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post-69358442640135208912010-02-15T13:59:43.001-08:002010-02-15T13:59:43.001-08:00Gem - Woah. This wasn't North Korea, you know....Gem - Woah. This wasn't North Korea, you know. My mum's family had their flat raided by the UB, my dad's dad was ex-AK, and nearly lost the right to practise his profession (for political reasons)(and you got points for family background when your application for university was considered); one has an MA, the other a PhD. Mum was a piously practising Catholic. (And that paternal grandfather had a university chair created specially for him, and that not at KUL.) <br /><br />It's amazing how much Sanskrit you can study without Marxism coming into it at all outside one joke course in Marxist Economics (or Politics, or some such - I know my uncle passed one of these exams, with top marks, by writing out the beginning of Pan Tadeusz, the C19 national "epic".). <br /><br />The background Fr Boyle describes as providing most priestly vocations sounds about normal for much of modern European history, in my vague recollection of past reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post-65045334065803655232010-02-13T12:24:04.394-08:002010-02-13T12:24:04.394-08:00WHat's the reason English students don't w...WHat's the reason English students don't wear clericals? I would think it would get them used to it -- and being perhaps treated a little differently in the community! [Particularly those who've progressed as far as the theologate!] When do they start wearing them? Diaconate?gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post-82350779700972526742010-02-13T12:04:57.671-08:002010-02-13T12:04:57.671-08:00Your assessment of average age of parents is spot ...Your assessment of average age of parents is spot on, and your analysis of the reasons why they have average educations seems to make sense. Every diocese would have its own seminary. No, English students don't wear clericals, period.Father John Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581732723849634398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6845239886251312993.post-52761776526932624142010-02-13T10:46:07.927-08:002010-02-13T10:46:07.927-08:00What a nice post! Beautiful surroundings and chape...What a nice post! Beautiful surroundings and chapel. I expect that given the average age of the seminiarian their parents would be in their late 40s and 50s - which is probably why more of them didn't have a chance at university education - because before the fall of communism, you had to walk a mighty fine line with the communists to get it. i.e. humanities and liberal arts would have been relative wasteland having to eat up a lot of Marxist twaddle. Even the math / scientist types had to tread a careful line.<br /><br />How many seminaries are there in Poland?<br /><br />[Don't English students wear clericals in the classroom?]gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.com