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Why Catholic priest have much higher education?

Why can not simply go online to qualify as some of the other Christian religions do?

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11 comments for “Why Catholic priest have much higher education?”


  1. Andrew Jerome James says:

    Because we have to know where the Christian faith began, how it started and all languages in the world to talk to each and every religion, too. that takes us 8 years or a graduate degree from a private Catholic university. How do I know all the information you teach? I am looking ahead of time so I know some things before my classes. Watch the Pope, who are still learning to become a cardinal should go back to school for a couple of years and get more information, to the Pope himself, he is always learning more. The so-called pastors do not know everything, because anyone can do what a Protestant pastor can do is speak and read the Bible. It is for those who want to know and understand how the Bible is why we need the Graduate Degree.

  2. Swami Salami Bologna says:

    When I was in seminary, used to ask myself the same question! LOL
      In fact, it requires a Masters in Theology or Divinity. The exception to this is the Jesuit order, which requires a doctorate before ordination.
      There are several reasons for this, but in part, the time spent studying at the Seminary is also a time of personal examination, by both the seminary and the bishop.
      Even in the Protestant tradition, there are two different types of master's degree in Divinity a person can study for. You have a clear inclination to become a minister.
      There's an old saying that you do not go to seminary to become a priest. You go to seminary to find out if God is really calling you to become a priest. When I was in the seminary, I realized that it is not called, but I received a terrible education.
      The other "churches" that you mentioned are not churches, but for a certificate or diploma mills, unfortunately.

  3. usafbrat says:

    Lutheran ministers go through the same thing … Undergraduate and graduate course work in theology, made at a seminar. Many continue their education to obtain his doctorate. His graduate work includes becoming fluent in Hebrew and Greek, exegetical theology, including biblical hermeneutics, systematic theology, including the Lutheran doctrine and confession, theology and practice, including counseling and Homiletics. All this is followed by a long year of vicarage, where they serve a congregation. Even at the end of it all … whether their teachers, tutors, etc are not intended to be a pastor, who may be denied the coordination and call status.
      Simply because we believe in a higher power does not make us uneducated!
      Now, that said, there are names that do not require more education, a desire to preach. Therefore, all the false teachers who are out there!

  4. mo in the middle says:

    Because Catholicism taught in seminaries and Catholic universities is very different from what is taught in Catholic schools. I went to a Catholic school and took a course in Modern Catholicism (required). What was the first priest who said, "forget everything the nuns told him."
      Education is a good thing.

  5. Rod B says:

    Catholic priests are kept at a much higher level of education that lay preachers, as you must understand the true interpretation of religious texts. Since Protestants do not agree that the rules are correct, that the doctrine to be followed and, apparently, can make things go along as there is apparently no set standard. Indeed, the Protestant preachers can get "ordained" by the $ 29.95 I want to be a preacher now.com

  6. LH Catholic By Choice says:

    Quinata I gave the most appropriate response, since it is a vocation and a sacrifice in most cases that the years of youth and family. Unlike many fundamentalist that some believe they were called by the Holy Spirit to preach only rent on time and to establish a church trying to build a following and I can attest that these groups tend to have constant and the struggle for the argument that exists in the right understanding and the rapid change of places of worship, if they feel that the preacher does not say what they believe or want to hear. Unfortunately THO and thank God it is now declining, but too old and the new liberal ideology has crept into our seminars some.But but not all, no matter what our priest is much better prepared to tackle the problems facing a Church.Like newspaper, which I said I grew up in different responses in a household Fundamental and only God knows how many people are killed or ruined, as was a Preacher Fundi and obtained what they considered simple Biblical answers to serious problems instead of aid that should have been a priest at EWTN encouraged.Like once said in an exchange of questions and answers after a person asked why Adventist 7 days were so anti-Catholic and was surprised that they were just as their response that was strange to feel that way as requested in the teaching of the Church exists in the marriage counseling that he had done.

  7. St_Biolo says:

    Because the Catholic Church has an enormous respect for our God-given right
      "If someone ask you the reason for this hope of yours," he writes, "always be ready to respond." (1 Peter 3:15)
      St. Francis de Sales (Doctor of the Church!) Even said that "Learning is the 8th sacrament.
      It's part of loving God and neighbor, "with all your mind."

  8. The Asker says:

    to be leaders. the least we can do is educate themselves. they can not educate anyone if you do not know anything.
      One thing I admire about Catholics is that they are not allergic to education.

  9. rac EAC Evil Atheist Conspiracy says:

    Is 7 years of university level course to become a Catholic priest, at least in this corner of the universe

  10. daljack -a girl says:

    … Most ministers and priests all have a degree (s) in Theology, Psychology and / or the Divine.
      Goes online only gives you the title.

  11. steve says:

    What do you mean? High school diploma?



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