News from the U.S. Province
Rev. Shawn D. Gould, PSS, Named President-Rector of St. Mary’s Seminary & University
The Provincial Council has appointed Sulpician Fr. Shawn D. Gould, PSS, STL, JD, as the next President-Rector of St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, effective July 1, 2026. This appointment has received the prerequisite approvals of Most Reverend William Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore and Chancellor of St. Mary’s, and Very Reverend Shayne E.M. Craig, PSS, Superior General...
New Faculty Chair Honors Retired Sulpician
Some older readers of Update will remember the late Fr. William J. Lee, PSS, who served as President of St. Mary’s Seminary & University from 1972 to 1980. During his tenure, Fr. Lee worked closely with his younger colleague Fr. Frederick J. Cwiekowski, PSS, who served as rector of St. Mary’s in Roland Park, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977. When Fr. Lee died on February 19, 2012, he left a...
Leo XIV, First American Pope
Leo XIV, First American Pope, May 8, 2025, Rome, The Vatican. Dear Confreres, et al., I am writing to you this early afternoon on May 9th, from the Maison Saint Sulpice, Paris. Last evening, while concluding my visit with Father Peter Kwaleyela, PSS at Maynooth (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University), Ireland, he and I shared the moment of great anticipation and joy at seeing, first, the white...
Meet Provincial Superior Fr. Daniel Moore
Sulpician Father Daniel F. Moore is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He is an alumnus of St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore (1984), and a priest of the Diocese of Memphis. Fr. Moore entered the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice on July 1, 2000, after serving 16 years as a diocesan priest—notably as a president/principal of a diocesan high school and middle school, a pastor,...
McGivney House of Formation Team
Rev. Shawn D. Gould, PSS, Director Fr. Shawn Gould, PSS, is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and a member of the Priests of the Society of St. Sulpice. Raised as a Presbyterian in Grand Haven, Michigan, Fr. Gould entered the Catholic Church while practicing law in Milwaukee. After moving to a large firm in Chicago, Fr. Gould discerned a call to the diocesan priesthood and entered Mundelein...