Code_of_Canon_Law

§2 Care is to be taken that different professors are appointed for sacred Scripture, dogmatic
theology, moral theology, liturgy, philosophy, canon law and church history, and for other
disciplines which are to be taught by their own distinctive methods.
§3 A professor who seriously fails in his or her duty is to be removed by the authority mentioned
in §1.
Can. 254 §1 In their lectures, the professors are to be continuously attentive to the intimate unity
and harmony of the entire doctrine of faith, so that the students are aware that they are learning
one science. To ensure this, there is to be someone in the seminary who is in charge of the
overall organisation of studies.
§2 The students are to be taught in such a way that they themselves are enabled to research
various questions in the scientific way appropriate to each question. There are, therefore, to be
assignments in which, under the guidance of the professors, the students learn to work out
certain subjects by their own efforts.
Can. 255 Although the whole formation of students in the seminary has a pastoral purpose, a
specifically pastoral formation is also to be provided there; in this the students are to learn the
principles and the techniques which, according to the needs of place and time, are relevant to the
ministry of teaching, sanctifying and ruling the people of God.
Can. 256 §1 Students are to be carefully instructed in whatever especially pertains to the sacred
ministry, particularly in catechetics and homiletics, in divine worship and in a special way in the
celebration of the sacraments, in dealing with people, including non-catholics and unbelievers, in
parish administration and in the fulfilment of other tasks.
§2 The students are to be instructed about the needs of the universal Church, so that they may
have a solicitude for encouraging vocations, for missionary and ecumenical questions, and for
other pressing matters, including social problems.
Can. 257 §1 The formation of students is to ensure that they are concerned not only for the
particular Church in which they are incardinated, but also for the universal Church, and that they
are ready to devote themselves to particular Churches which are beset by grave need.
§2 The diocesan Bishop is to ensure that clerics who intend to move from their own particular
Church to a particular Church in another region, are suitably prepared to exercise the sacred
ministry there, that is, that they learn the language of the region, and have an understanding of its
institutions, social conditions, usages and customs.
Can. 258 In order that the students may also by practice learn the art of exercising the apostolate,
they are in the course of their studies, and especially during holiday time, to be initiated into
pastoral practice by suitable assignments, always under the supervision of an experienced priest.
These assignments, appropriate to the age of the student and the conditions of the place, are to be
determined by the Ordinary.