Asked about the importance of religion in her city, one religion reporter immediately pointed out that the local seminary has a theater. Alas, as the reporter's words inadvertently reveal, acclaim for these secondary features does not seem to lead to public awareness of the seminary's primary mission and program. The Catholic seminary that was mistaken by the Congressman for a nursing home is another good example. You could choose that strategy to be quiet, or to select those people who you want to know you. Whether or not this strategy is intentional, it effectively characterizes the seminaries in each of the four cities we visited.
Seminaries are quiet to the point of absence in their local communities.
But then so, as we shall see, are the religious leaders they train.