nothing about his talent been reprimanded for not having itninvested with the bankers, TOIS TRAPEZITAIS?)nIn the United States, priests were not educated at thengreat universities, as they are in the heart of Europe, but innseminaries whose horizon did not materially transcend anone-sided theology and a certain amount of philosophy.nThere was no art education, as testified to, for example, bynthe National Shrine in Washington, DC, a monstrousnhodgepodge of practically all styles, as well as by countlessnother church interiors. Nor was there a true grasp of churchnhistory. As for psychology, sociology, or economics, instructionnwas only too often extremely naive, leaving thesenpoor young men almost defenseless in the face of thenonslaught of such primitive ideologies as Marxism-nLeninism. But even the theological education becamenincreasingly defective; the knowledge of Hebrew diminishednrapidly, and Greek, at present, seems to follow. What wennow see is a growing incapability to read the Scriptures innthe original: even the original text of the Lord’s Prayer posesntwo grave problems unknown to those ignorant of Greek.nAnd knowledge of the theologies of the other Christiannfaiths? It is, as a rule, nonexistent. The results are ecumenicnendeavors which merely increase the confusion in Christendom’snAmerican sector.nThus, when the crisis following Vatican II developed onna global scale (as it really did), the Netherlands and thenUnited States suffered most. There were the theologiansnwho lacked the ability to be original within a narrow frame,nwithin the limits of orthodoxy. One should be less afraid ofnthose who remained still essentially Christian. Among themnmn^i;mn^nIjSSI-Jâ„¢*”’n$6.^5n^ISSEZRMREBQa