Archbishop Raymond L. Burke has announced the initiation of a new philosophy program for Cardinal Glennon College and pre-theology seminarians at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury.
Under the new program, college seminarians will continue to take their general curriculum classes in liberal arts at St. Louis University for the first two years. Pre-theology and college seminarians will then take two years of core classes in philosophy at the seminary, rather than at SLU, as they had for 20 years.
Archbishop Burke made the announcement on the program change at an assembly last week for seminarians and faculty at the seminary.
The new program is a systematic study of philosophy, according to the archbishop, with an emphasis on the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. About 20 seminarians — half Cardinal Glennon College juniors and half in the first year of the pre-theology program — are expected to enroll in philosophy courses at the seminary this fall.
The study of philosophy "is essential to the intellectual formation of priests; for the priest, above all, must understand as deeply as possible what we believe and practice," said Archbishop Burke. A philosophy program, he added, is necessary to prepare seminarians for later studies in theology as part of their overall priestly formation.
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