It’s ridiculous that they accept ANY of the NO priest’s “training” as legit. They should be sent back to year one. Even Taylor Marshall was complaining about what a joke NO seminaries are, with zero Latin, zero scholastic philosophy, and where many priests had never even heard of St. Thomas Aquinas.
With those criteria, I should have been ordained after one year, since I majored in Greek and Latin, and had as many courses in philosophy and theology, in addition to my own reading, as they have. I entered STAS with a better background than 99% of NO presiders have. Also, the NO seminary formation is basically like going to college, going to daily Mass a couple times a week, and a two-day retreat once a year.