Every Catholic priest has a chalice. And every chalice has a story. Seminarians becoming priests in 2024 share theirs.
The Saint Paul Seminary begins the 2024-25 academic year with an enrollment of 91 seminarians from 19 different dioceses and religious orders.
More than 7,000 Catholic laymen and women, bishops, priests, seminarians and religious from the Upper Midwest and beyond joined The Saint Paul Seminary, the National Eucharistic Revival and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for the “Source and Summit” Eucharistic procession down Summit Avenue.
Five Catholic bishops will ordain 13 Saint Paul Seminary seminarians as transitional deacons this spring and summer.
Fr. Brian Gross is set to join The Saint Paul Seminary priest staff as director of pastoral formation this summer. In this conversation, Gross shares some insights from his own priestly journey he hopes to share with seminarians in his new role.
On May 25, 2024, thousands of Catholics gathered inside a packed Cathedral of St. Paul to attend the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ priestly ordination.
A priest of 44 years brought a trove of experience to his role as the seminary’s director of pastoral formation the past five years. Fr. Michael Skluzáček called it a fitting final stop of his career, though he’s quick to point out he’s “not retiring from being a priest.”
Catholic Rural Life – and, in many ways, The Saint Paul Seminary – exists to make rural ministry easier. The organization with offices in the seminary’s Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library is celebrating its 100th anniversary this spring, a century of equipping Catholics in rural America to know, love and serve Christ while leading their neighbors to do the same.
Josh French walks into Cottage Grove Ice Arena, a black and purple Minnesota State hockey bag slung over his shoulder. It’s one of the many Twin Cities rinks the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis seminarian frequented while he grew up. Today, the former Division I hockey player and professional prospect is meeting his older brother for an early-afternoon skate and a trip back — and forward — in time.
Sixteen players, 24 seminarian fans and five priests made the five-hour drive to St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee for the fourth annual De Sales Invitational Feb. 9-11. The event has become one of the seminary’s favorite traditions in a short time.