{"id":2555,"date":"2008-09-13T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/09\/13\/top-u-s-catholic-seminary-sees-spike-in-enrollment\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:40:31","slug":"top-u-s-catholic-seminary-sees-spike-in-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/09\/top-u-s-catholic-seminary-sees-spike-in-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Catholic seminary sees spike in enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rome seminary considered the West Point for U.S. priests has its largest incoming class in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Pontifical North American College is welcoming 61 seminarians in its fall classes beginning in mid-October, according to Catholic News Service.<\/p>\n<p>The school, on a hill overlooking the Vatican, opened in 1954 with room for more than 200 students, but has not been full in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Robert Gruss, vice rector for student life, told CNS that the college, which is sponsored by the U.S. bishops, will have 208 seminarians total this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rome seminary considered the West Point for U.S. priests has its largest incoming class in 40 years. The Pontifical North American College is welcoming 61 seminarians in its fall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}