Reply #6: I haven't decided [View All]

[AngryOldDem]

Still going back and forth between the Vatican II courses and the Merton/Day/Percy offerings. I'd like to somehow try to take them all (some don't begin until next winter), but I have to be realistic...I'm taking a 9-hour school load this fall, plus working full-time second shift, plus family obligations...and there's just so many hours in the day.

I do enjoy Merton and would love to read/hear critical commentary of his works...so right now, I'd say I'm leaning toward The Seven Storey Mountain.

As for the seminary courses here...they're geared toward those who are working toward ordination or lay certification, which I am not (obviously). I'm just in this for my own edification. Last summer I audited a grad school class in Catholic Social Teaching at my alma mater (University of Dayton) and enjoyed it immensely.

STEP sounds like a good deal -- the classes that cost a little more are monitored, I think, by ND faculty. I find it commendable that ND is willing to do this. Wish more schools would. Maybe they do; they need to get the word out.