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In many Western countries, the Catholic Church (like several others) is currently suffering a vocations crisis. Australia is no exception. Each year, dioceses see more priests retire, die, or leave the priesthood than new ones are ordained. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly mission-critical for dioceses to understand better the vocational journeys of those men who do become priests. These are also, of course, groups of considerable sociological interest: what motivates them to do (and become) something so countercultural? This article presents the main findings from a qualitative research project exploring the vocational journeys of recently ordained (i.e., within the past ten years at the time of the study) priests in the Archdiocese of Sydney, New South Wales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Canon law recognizes the pastor as the chief educational officer (CEO) of the parish school. However, recent studies demonstrate that seminaries do not prepare seminarians for work in or leadership of Catholic schools, and recent scholarship also demonstrates that an increasing number of seminarians lack the desire to lead a parish school. Our research study examined the post-seminary preparation of priests for leadership of parish schools. We also explored alternative governance models for Catholic schools. We conducted structured interviews with 10 national leaders to explore these two areas of interest. Our findings demonstrate that preparation of newly ordained and veteran priests for parish school leadership is woefully inadequate. Interviewees suggested that the pastor/principal relationship and school finance are two important topics that should be addressed in best practice preparation programs for school leaders. All 10 interviewees had difficulty imagining alternative governance models for schools in which the pastor would not serve as the CEO, but at the same time, some of the participants could see potential benefits of alternative governance models. Based on the findings of our study, we recommend that: (1) seminary programs include an initial introduction to the importance of Catholic schools for evangelization; (2) a new national model for preparing young and veteran priests for school leadership be developed and implemented; (3) existing best practices for alternative governance models be collated and promulgated; and (4) church leaders and stakeholders determine the best governance models for their schools and then prepare the appropriate people for leadership roles accordingly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the achievements of Ukrainian scholars in the period of independence in the field of studies of secondary spiritual education in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The purpose of this publication is an attempt to comprehend the contribution of modern Ukrainian scientists to the development of the given problem. She was thoroughly studied by such researchers as Ilchishin S. V., Rozhko V. E., Sergienko A. A., Stepanenko G. V., Fedorchuk O. O., Tsiplyak N. O., Shamara S. O., Ship O. N. Also, after 1991, the number of published works that only affects the development of secondary spiritual education in the nineteenth century has increased. in the Ukrainian lands, but they are not directly related to them. In most of them, they are dedicated to either the history of Orthodoxy and the church, or the development of higher or secondary secular education. First of all, we mean the research of such scientists as Borisenko V. Y., Datsenko I. S., Kovalchuk T. V., Koptyukh Y. V., Kruglyak M. E., Kurchenko V. V., Ignatush O. M., Ilchishin S. V., Nadtoka G. M., Naradka A. V., Nepogozhnaya G. A., Meshkovskaya S. I., Posokhova S. I., Stoyan T. A., Shugalova I. M. and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines what it meant to be and to become a man of God in the nineteenth century. It concentrates on the gendered aspects of priesthood, developed and enforced in the seminaries employed by the Scottish Mission to mould its future labourers. The article sets the ideas in the context of nineteenth-century discourse on both clerical and secular manliness and masculinity. It addresses the peculiarities of the Roman Catholic seminary experience and the paradoxes of developing manliness in this environment, combining ideals of moral and religious superiority, fatherhood, camaraderie, chastity and maturity, developing in close contact with other boys and male superiors in the virtual absence of women. The research relies on archival sources on the students of the French colleges associated with the Scottish Mission after the French Revolution, supplemented by material relating to other Scots Colleges on the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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