Sulpician

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• From the world of social ethics, we meet the diocesan priest John Ryan, the Sulpician John Cronin, and Jesuit John Courtney Murray.

  Academic text (2009)

• The Sulpicians are known for their commitment to educating future priests in the Catholic Church.

• We are not, after all, old-school Jansenistic Sulpicians who required that sort of thing.

  Blog text (26)

• For their part, the Sulpicians regarded England, who was Irish-born, as too liberal in his thinking, unduly confrontational in approach, and personally ambitious.

  Academic text (2005)

• The overall influence of the Society of St. Sulpice was such that Kauffman can justifiably speak of this epoch as one of "Sulpician dominance in the making of American Catholic culture."

  Academic text (2005)

• But when we consider that only thirty-five Sulpicians served in the U.S. between 1791 and 1852, it is also a record that testifies to the plasticity of the religious situation in the pioneer era.

  Academic text (2005)

• The Sulpicians were headquartered in Paris, and when the French Revolution sent more of them to these shores than could be usefully employed in seminary education, which was their specialty, they undertook ordinary pastoral duties as well.

  Academic text (2005)

• Its founder, John Dubois, who left the Sulpicians as a result of the competition with the Baltimore seminary and was named third bishop of New York in 1826, was probably the only member of the hierarchy who undertook to defend the mixed arrangement on principled grounds.

  Academic text (2005)

• Marchal was, to be sure, deeply imbued with the devotional spirit so intense among the Sulpicians, but the priorities he outlined commanded wide assent among Catholic churchmen of the time.

  Academic text (2005)

• Many Sulpician priests dedicated their lives to teaching theology to seminary students.

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