IRELAND
The Irish Catholic
Michael Kelly
The national seminary at Maynooth is to clearly separate the seminary environment from the wider university community The Irish Catholic understands.
In a move that will be seen in some quarters as a nod to the past when seminary life was completely separated from the outside world, it is believed that the changes are part of the Apostolic Visitation’s attempt to ‘reform’ training structures for priests in Ireland.
Separation doors have already been installed on the main cloister to partition the seminarians’ living quarters from the rest of the campus to which only members of the seminary community now have keys.
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