U.S. Province News Archive

Life at St. Mary’s Seminary & University was dictated by the tolling of the seminary’s bell. Originally, the seminary was located at 600 N. Paca Street in downtown Baltimore, where it was established as the first Roman Catholic Seminary in the United States in...

Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas, kicked off the month of February with its yearly Multicultural Celebration. The seminary community came together around a meal and other festive activities to celebrate the beauty of diversity found in the seminary. In a...

St. Kizito House of Formation for philosophy students belongs to the diocese of Gaborone in Botswana. It is situated in Lusaka, Zambia, adjacent to the campus of St. Bonaventure College. In 2019, the diocese invited the Sulpicians to take charge of it. The house was...

Cornelius Hankomoone, PSSFormation FacultySt. Kizito is a house of formation for philosophy students belonging to the diocese of Gaborone in Botswana, but situated in Lusaka, Zambia. It is solely owned by the diocese of Gaborone. Though Botswana is a relatively...

In February 2018, the Sulpician Fathers arrived at St. Anthony’s Kachebere Major Seminary, Mchinji, central Malawi to assume responsibility for the administration of the seminary, the priestly formation program of its seminarians and the philosophy curricula of...

Fr. Rene Lopez, PSS, STLVice Rector, Assumption SeminaryTo celebrate the 150th year of the declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Pope Francis issued the Apostolic Letter With a Father’s Heart and proclaimed a Year of St. Joseph. Both acts of the...

In mid-March, St. Mary’s Seminary & University celebrated the completion of Phase 2 of its extensive 21st century renovation project with a prayer service and blessing of the new residences by its rector, Fr. Phillip J. Brown, PSS. Completion of Phase 2 included...

Martin J. Burnham, PSSDirector of Discernment & AdmissionThe installation of Fr. Dominic Ciriaco, PSS, as the seventeenth rector of Theological College occurred on October 29, 2020, at Mass in The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with...

Fr. Mark Knestout (center), the 2019-2020 Recipient of the Rev. Gerald L. Brown, P.S.S., Award for Excellence in Pastoral Ministry Supervision. Left: Fr. Chris Arockiaraj, PSS, Vice-Rector. Right: Fr. Dominic Ciriaco, PSS, Rector.Chris Arockiaraj, PSS, PhDVice-Rector...

A Guide to Seminary FormationUpdate recently spoke with Permanent Deacon Ed McCormack (Archdiocese of Washington), formation faculty member and Coordinator of Intellectual Formation at Theological College, The National Seminary of The Catholic University of America,...