IRELAND
The Irish Times
PAMELA DUNCAN
TRAINEE PRIESTS at Ireland’s national seminary in Maynooth are to be separated from the rest of the student body, according to an article in the current edition of the Irish Catholic.
This would see seminarians separated from the 8,000-strong student body of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. The report says that doors have been installed at the college, separating the seminarians’ living quarters from the rest of the campus; a new entrance to the seminary has been constructed to the rear of the building; and proposals that the trustees of the college create a separate dining room for the seminary community have been put forward.
Msgr Hugh Connolly, president of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, told the Irish Catholic that he was “trying to get the balance right between the need for the seminary to be a distinctive, prayerful community and ensure that the seminarians have all the benefits that the Maynooth campus has to offer.
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