Vatican II aspired for priests to be cultivated people; it specifically refers to humanistic, scientific, and linguistic formation. This part of priestly formation has been neglected to the extreme.
December 22 will be the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Carlos Alberto Sacheri, who was besieged by a commando of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) terrorist group while he was returning from Mass with his family in Buenos Aires.
Catholicism should take up again its promotion of Thomistic thought, especially the concepts of order, truth, and meaning – elements proper to natural wisdom, the basis of later revelation.