Documents on Priesthood & Formation
Optatum Totius
Second Vatican Council Decree on Priestly Training
Presbyterorum Ordinis
Second Vatican Council Decree on the Ministry of Priest
Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis
Spiritual Formation in Seminaries
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
Apostolic Letter of John Paul II on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone.
Pastores Dabos Vobis
Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II on the Formation of Priests in the Present Day.
Instruction on Candidates with Homosexual Tendencies
Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders
Seminary Visitation Final Report
The report from the 2008 Apostolic Visitation to American seminaries and houses of formation.