A few measures by which to judge if this is in fact a Catholic seminary,
1) Does it have a full time clerical staff to teach, guide, and watch over the seminarians? I do not mean layman or part time clerics, but full time, a senior brother or a priest at all times.
2) Is daily and Sunday Mass always available to the seminarians?
3) Is there an established and eccessiastically approved curriculum which is properly structured?
4) Are the facilities adequate to provide a safe and wholesome study and living environment for the seminarians?
5) Are the seminarians segregated from daily bustle of the compound and surrounding neighbors so that they might be apart from the "world", and are there accommodations for complete silence and contemplation for interior communion with God?
6 ) Has the seminary been inspected and approved by a resistance Bishop and his recommendations and corrections followed?
Comment, If these basics have not or cannot be met, the seminary should not attempt to operate until they are.
If it is already operating without these basics, operation should be suspended until they are present.
Operating a seminary is not an add on function of a priory. It is a separate and critical function for forming GOOD priests not rolling out cassocks stamped resistance. The warm body theory does not hold in matters of the priesthood.
Operating a seminary is a primary function, not a secondary one. That should always be kept in mind.
On a personal note, I would say that it is time to stop pretending, and high time to get serious.
NOW we're on-topic here. I agree with Manuel Chavez that we don't have to resort to ad-hominems. They just distract us from the truth at hand. And the quoted post above is the SUBSTANCE of my (and others') opposition to the Boston, KY seminary.
This isn't a feud. This isn't personal. Fr. Pfeiffer's personality doesn't "just rub me the wrong way". If anything, I actually prefer priests who give sermons off-the-cuff. They are usually more interesting and easy to follow.
So I'm not just "one of those guys that can't appreciate Fr. Pfeiffer". Far from it. I was one of his early supporters, until I was basically FORCED to publicly oppose some of his activities.
This worse-than-nothing seminary is a perfect example. Pablo is another; and Mr. Ambrose Moran is yet another.
I'm not going to turn off my brain, not even for a priest I like.
You are 100% correct. This is not a question of this or that person as we all assume the good intent of our fellow Catholics, especially priests.
It is about the concrete factor and logistics of forming a resistance group, a seminary, a priory, or a chapel, etc.
Certain things are needed and certain basic rules and procedures must be followed for such enterprises to be proper in the Catholic sense and to be able to succeed in their purpose.
I had assumed that with common sense they had been done, but now, finding out the shamble that has passed for a Catholic seminary and the disjointed and disorganized fashion in which the priests are flitting from place to place, who knows where or when with no real discernible pattern or larger strategy is to say the least disappointing and shocking.
This is before considering a questionable cleric having been introduced into this chapel circuit with no consultation with a "resistance" bishop or the enmity and hostility between the priests and other priests and bishops. It is not easily understandable how this has come about, save the intervention of a devil.
This thread would be more accurately titled "30 Days in the Seminary that would be, but is not."
It is time for these folks to get off of the soap stand and get serious about what they are doing.