Joe...I would assume that seminary would assume you WERE already 'indoctrinated', or you wouldn't be there. Am I incorrect?
   I can't imagine that they would teach critical thinking in such a way that it might interfere with Catholic theology....are seminaries that different? I am aware that you are pretty liberal, as Catholics go, but how did seminary contribute to this?

I know many institutions that 'teach' "how to think" within the parameters of the credo, that is, how to creatively expound and defend and explain the institution itself. Some of this is indistinguishable from 'rhetoric' or its cousins. I am concerned, as you know, mostly with the most neutral form possible...although it does sometimes lead to non-neutral positions.