News from the U.S. Province
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...
McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation Welcomes Inaugural Class
McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation Welcomes Inaugural Class Very Rev. Daniel F. Moore, PSS, Archbishop William E. Lori, Rev. Shawn D. Gould, PSS, and Fr. James Yeakel, OSFS, with the inaugural class at the Covenant Mass on August 28, 2024, at St. Mary’s Seminary & University. In August, McGivney House welcomed eight men from Baltimore, Buffalo, Erie, Scranton, and Wilmington to begin...
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...