Dialogue Resource
Reflections on Catholic Seminary Education on Jewish-Catholic Relations (2013)
Reflections on Catholic Seminary Education on Jewish-Catholic Relations by John W. Crossin, OSFS
"I am happy to share a few thoughts with you this afternoon based on my thirty years of experience in seminary education and on the data secured in the October 2012 annual survey of Catholic seminary education conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate [CARA] a research center at Georgetown University.
In the study, which CARA sends each year to seminary rectors, eighty percent reported that they offer instruction in Catholic-Jewish relations. This is good news. This stands in contrast to pre-Nostra Aetate seminary instruction.
One seminary reports that it offers a MS degree in Jewish-Christian Studies, while another report that it is developing a certificate program with a defined sequence of courses."