They’re going to send them to the US obviously... to fluff the numbers and appear to justify the cost of the seminary. They had hoped for an influx of NO seminarians after regularization ... which is why they built that thing.
So the timing of this is interesting right around the Motu.
It’ll be called +Fellay’s folly.
SSPX has one man to thank (or in their view blame) for non-regularization.... Bishop Williamson. He single-handedly scuttled the talks with his h0Ɩ0h0αx interviews. Bishop Williamson may have saved Tradition. Sometimes I wonder if he didn’t do it on purpose.
I don't think so. Bishop Fellay returned the protocol agreement demanded by B16 and Cardinal Müller. Furthermore, with regards to the relocation of the seminarians, it is common knowledge that the Australian border closures were quite strict and the letter by the rector did mention the closing of Australia’s international borders has rendered it impossible for foreign vocations to enter the country.
Relying only on Australian and New Zealand vocations will not be practically sustainable to run that place. Perhaps when the lσcкdσωns and borders are reopened, HCS will function once again as a seminary, God willing.
"Without these foreign vocations, it is unfortunately evident that it will not be possible to maintain
the numbers required for the proper structure and formation of a seminary institution. A healthy number
for Holy Cross would be 25 seminarians. Ideally, that number would not fall below 15. However, this year
our seminary has only 9 candidates for the priesthood. And with current lσcкdσωn laws, there is little
possibility that these numbers will improve in the near future.
Holy Cross was not able to receive any new foreign candidates for the academic years of 2020 and
2021. The same seems almost certain for 2022. Yet once the number falls below 15, the burden and
pressure on those that remain starts to increase exponentially at each departure."
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