Special Sections - Vocations

05/29/2008

Four Kenrick-Glennon Seminary students last weekend were ordained to the priesthood for other dioceses. Another Kenrick-Glennon seminarian is to be ordained for his home diocese of Omaha.

The newly ordained priests are Fathers Matthew DeBlock, Michael Linnebur, Kevin Muniz and Aaron Spexarth. The Rev. Mr. Scott Hastings is to be ordained next weekend.

All earned both a master of divinity degree and master of arts in theology degr...

01/04/2008

Archbishop Raymond L. Burke has called Kenrick-Glennon Seminary "the heart of the life of the Archdiocese of St. Louis."

"That’s very true," Archbishop Burke told the Review. "That’s simply because the seminary is the place in which I’m providing the priests for the parishes. I serve the whole archdiocese best by providing worthy priests to serve in the parishes as spiritual leaders. So it is r...

01/03/2008

One gift begets another even greater when it comes to giving to the Christmas Appeal for Kenrick-Glennon Seminary.

This year’s appeal once again will take place Christmas Eve and Christmas Day throughout the 200-plus parishes in the archdiocese.

The annual appeal is one of the seminary’s most important collections, providing 15 percent of its annual revenue.

Next spring, 14 seminarians will have completed their...

08/30/2006

Remember praying for vocations to the priesthood in recent times?

It looks like those prayers are having an effect.

Two priests who work directly with seminarians and potential seminarians in the archdiocese are attributing a recent growth in the number of St. Louis men enrolling at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary to a number of factors.

This year, the seminary opened its doors to 61 St. Louisans, according to Father Michael Butl...