I was there, though, before Humanities Year, and the average ones that had sufficient intellectual aptitude in general to become priests made it through just fine without the Humanities Year, even if it maybe took them a few months to catch up. Those who didn't make it undoubtedly would not have made it even with the addition of the Humanities Year. Now, if there were some cases that needed to be attended to, they could easily have come up with a solution that didn't coset $50 million dollars ... to add a Humanities Year. You could have sent them to St. Mary's, given entrance/aptitude exams to prospective seminarians and then referred some who weren't ready to St. Mary's, or even host a Summer program to get them up to speed, and in the most challenging cases, have them do 2 Summer sessions, which would only set them back one academic year ... just as Humanities Year would have. Finally, for 2 million dollars TOPS, they could have added a new wing or building to the complex ... all problems solved for a fraction of the cost.
IMO, they used the Humanities Year to artificially create the alleged "overcrowding problem" to justify something they wanted to build for ulterior motives, and then speculating about what those motives may have been, since by itself even the engineered problem could have been solved very easily without the absurd expenditure. Problem -> Reaction -> Solution. Create a problem by adding Humanities Year (instead of solving for it before you added it by adding a wing or building). Elicit a Reaction ... where the lay faithful are sympathetic to pictures of two seminarians sharing one of those tiny rooms. Solution ... propose the building project and get the lay faithful to send money.
I agree with the whole money thing. Clearly the SSPX handles the money the way any massive, invincible corporation does. They waste and waste without a care in the world. Honestly the recent expenditures of the SSPX remind me of the woke direction taken by several large companies. Bud Light, the NBA, and Jaguar all lost billions supporting the tranny agenda. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Just business as usual. Lol. It boggles the mind. And so I see it similarly with the SSPX which spent 50 million on a seminary with only about 30 more rooms than the previous one. And they forgot to build a church or even chapel for goodness' sake! It's shameful that with all of that money spent, the seminary holds its liturgy in a conference room. What a disgrace.
Anyway, I'm still going to die on the hill of SSPX priests requiring a better formation. And while I usually enjoy and agree with most of what you write, no, the answer is not to send seminarians to the college at St. Mary's. The supposed catholics there smoke weed and regularly have children out of wedlock. That's the best way to annihilate vocations.
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