Report
Vatican Congregation of Catholic Education's Apostolic Visitation Seminaries Report (2008)
Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education Letter Reporting the Apostolic Visitation to U.S. Seminaries and Houses of Priestly Formation, December 15, 2008
"At the conclusion of the Apostolic Visitation of the American seminaries and houses of priestly formation, the Congregatjon for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Educational Institutions) begins by thanking you for your heartfelt collaboration with this fraternal undertaking, which was intended as an act aimed at providing assistance to you, the U.S. Church leaders, in your mission of ensuring a correct priestly formation for your candidates to Holy Orders.
It was decided early on in the process to give the Apostolic Visitation a rather broad focus, while omitting some issues of a secondary nature, such as the seminaries' finances, library holdings, the state of the physical plants, etc. The categories that were eventually included in the Instrumentum laboris all had a direct bearing on priestly formation.
The remainder of this letter is divided into three parts: (1) a summary of the organization of the Visitation; (2) the conclusions, category by category, following the outline provided by the Visitation's Instrumentum laboris, and (3) a short, general conclusion."