How tough is the schooling one has to complete to become a priest?
The Academic portion of seminary is an important part of seminary training. After all no one would want to have a surgeon operate on him if he barely passed medical school. The work of priests is at least as, if not more, important than the work of doctors. After all, the most a physician can do is delay death, the work of a priest brings life eternal! After a priest has completed seminary, he has at least a Bachelors and a Masters degree (maybe more depending on the program). The classes in the seminary help us not only to be good priests, but it is from this theological and philosophical foundation out of which we will minister to God’s people. At the seminary, one takes classes on everything from the Bible, to Church history, to Dogma, to how to prepare and give homilies, and all sorts of other interesting items that relate to the Church. Different people have different gifts. It is not expected that every priest needs to get straight A’s only that they do their best to reach their
