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erage was 17 years.
The study, titled "Seminari-
! ans in the Nineties" was based
I on a survey of students in U.S.
I theological seminaries during
I the 1992-93 year, con-
school
I ducted by the NCEA Seminary
I Department with a grant from
I
I The Lilly Endowment, one of
I the major U.S. contributors to
I research in religious life and
I trends.
I Chief designer of the survey
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! was Father Eugene F. Hem-
I rick, secretary of research for
! the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops.
! Of 2,921 questionnaires sent
! out to seminarians, 901 or 31
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! percent were returned. The re-
I searchers attributed the low
I
return to several possible fac-
tors, among them the length of
the survey, which had 126
questions, and the fact that 39
of the questions were open-
ended, requiring a written an-
swer instead of a multiple
choice check-off.
"We felt the added depth
open-ended questions give to a
study was worth the risk" of a
low response, the report said.
The average age of seminari-
ans in theological seminaries
surveyed in 1993 was 32, up
I from 29 in 1984 and 25 in
I 1966.
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I Among those who had ca-
! rears or full-time jobs before
I
! entering the seminary, the
! largest numbers came from
! fields such as education,
church-affiliated work and
management. But others came
from law, construction, re-
search, military, health care,
sales, science, sports, commu-
nity service, advertising, farm-
ing, writing, real estate, men-
tal health and a wide range of
other jobs.
The study found significant
discrepancies from an earlier
survey of seminary faculty
when it asked seminarians to
describe their academic pre-
paredness, abilities and
achievement.
The faculty study, released
in January 1993, found that
faculty members considered
seminarians generally strong
in areas such as pastoral con-
cern, spirituality, sensitivity
and a spirit of service, but
quite weak academically.
Weaknesses faculty de-
scribed ranged from inade-
quate religious and academic
background for theology stud-
ies to lack of intellectual cu-
riosity and weakness in cogni-
tive skills.
When the seminarians were
asked to rate themselves and
their peers in those areas,
however, they saw a much
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more positive picture. Most
seminarians thought they and
their peers were above average
in almost all academic areas,
while most faculty viewed
them as average or below aver-
age in those same areas.
In a written commentary on
the new study, Franciscan Sis-
ter Katarina Schuth of St. Paul
(Minn.) Seminary School of Di-
vinity, a seminary research
specialist, noted that many
concerns expressed by faculty
about seminary formation
today focused on difficulties in
teaching the growing popula-
tion of older candidates.
She called for more research
into the effectiveness of semi-
nary programs to educate and
form older men for the priest-
hood.
She also suggested that the
"enormous" faculty-student dif-
ference in academic percep-
tions deserves further study.
"All of the data suggest that
faculty and students have re-
markably divergent views
when it comes to assessing the
capability of students," she
said.
While the seminary popula-
tion figures used by the NCEA
study reflected a long-term de-
cline, last year's yearly survey
of seminary enrollment by the
Center for Applied Research in
the Apostolate reported a
slight increase in the number
of diocesan seminarians in the-
ology for the first time in sev-
eral years.
Father C. Joseph O'Hara,
CARA's director of seminary
research,said the data col-
lected for the 1993-94•school
year show an overall decline of
about 6 percent.
The following seminarians
are preparing for the priest-
hood for the Diocese of Evans-
ville:
• Jack Durchholz, from Good
Shepherd Church, Evansville,
third year, at Sacred Heart
School of Theology, Hales Cor-
ner, Wisc.
• Brian Holtz, from St.
Joseph Church, Evansville,
third year, at Mundelein Semi-
nary, Mundelein, Ill.
• Derrick Koch, from St.
Francis Xavier Church,
Poseyville, Pastoral Year, at
St. Meinrad School of Theol-
ogy.
• Kenneth Steckler, from St.
Mary Church, Huntingburg,
second year of theology, at
American College, Louvain,
Belgium.
• Joseph Dung Van Hoang,
from St. Joseph Church,
Evansville, first year of theol-
ogy, at St. Meinrad School of
Theology.
• Anthony Ernst, from St.
Celestine Church, Celestine,
pre-theology at Mundelein
Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.
Three theology Students are
on leaves of absence: Joseph
Cook of Christ the King
Church, Evansville; Jerrell
Harville, of St. Joseph Church,
Jasper, and Thomas Zint of St.
Martin Church, Chrisney.
College Seminarians are
Danny Lutz of St. Clement
Churhc, Boonville, second
year, at St. Meinrad College;
David Rudisill, of Holy Re-
deemer Church, Evansville,
first year, St. Meinrad College;
and Eric Weidenbenner, of St.
Mary Church Ireland, first
year, St. Meinrad College.
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