"Coordinator of U.S. seminary visitations expects report this fall" - CNS

From CNS:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said May 26 that the Vatican's visitations to U.S. seminaries and houses of formation are nearly complete, and he hopes the resulting reports will be released this fall.

"Bottom line, I think this visitation was most successful," Archbishop O'Brien said in a talk to the 2006 Catholic Media Convocation in Nashville. A former head of two seminaries, he was coordinator of the visitations for the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, which oversees seminary formation.

The objectives of the visitations, which were sparked by the sexual abuse crisis that hit the U.S. church in 2002, were to examine the criteria for admission of candidates and various aspects of priestly formation, including the intellectual formation of seminarians in the field of moral theology and the programs of human and spiritual formation aimed at ensuring they can faithfully live chaste, celibate lives.

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"Each seminary will get its own report. The question is will it be made public?" Archbishop O'Brien said."I think each report should be made public to the appropriate constituencies," he added.

He said it would be difficult to keep the results confidential.

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He said the overall report won't name specific seminaries or rank them in terms of compliance with the congregation's objectives.

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"I hope there will be consequences for all concerned," he said. "I just don't know what means Rome will use to make sure seminaries are in compliance."

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What guarantee is there that this report won't be quickly filed-away and forgotten?

Update: Diogenes posts his comments here.