Citing eight theologates between Boston and Washington, and three seminaries in Ohio, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York called for a consolidation of seminaries in the United States.
“Some thoughtful observers have proposed we consider regional major seminaries, one for each of four or five geographic areas in the US Church,” he wrote in the Jesuit journal America. “With funding and staff provided by all the area dioceses, such institutions could become educational and pastoral centers without peer.”