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News & Events
February 8 -- Washington Auxiliary Bishop Barry Knestout conducted the annual Installation of Ministries ceremony and liturgy at Theological College on Monday evening, February 8. Twenty-eight semiarians were installed as Acolyte and Readers. Those installed as Acolyte include: Lenny Andrie (Richmond), Justin Blanc and Adam Brown (Wheeling-Charleston), Colin Franklin (Jefferson City), Keith Garvin (Fort Worth), Peter Mottola (Rochester), Kevin O'Keefe, (Savannah), Jean-Baptiste Perche (Nanterre, FR) and Christopher Rhodes (Louisville). Installed as Reader include: Larry Adams (Pittsburgh), Alan Cyr (Portland, ME), Andrew DeFusco (Baltimore), Kyle Doustou (Portland, ME), Michael Greco (Fort Worth), Chad Green (Seattle), Andrew Haissig (Arlington), James Harris (Louisville), Matthew Kiehl (Richmond), Mark Lockard (Savannah), Charles Ludwick (Wheeling-Charleston), Zachary Mabee (Lansing), Kenneth Marlovits (Pittsburgh), John-Paul Mitchell (Milwaukee), Jean-Baptiste Perche (Nanterre, FR), Eric Shaffer (Arlington), Matthew Schultz (Syracuse) and Brian Thompson (Seattle). January 22 -- TC hosted more than 125 seminarians, visiting bishops, and other guests attending annual March for Life activities in Washington, D.C., January 21-22. The Schola Cantorum from Theological College performed at a special Mass held at the Verizon Center in downtown Washington prior to the demonstration and march to the Supreme Court. This year more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington to give witness to the call to recognize the life of the unborn and to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Roe v Wade. January 18 -- TC seminarian Mr. Christopher Rhodes, a third theologian from the Archdiocese of Louisville, is named president of the National Black Catholic Seminarians Association. The organization is an affiliate of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus. He assumes the position of NBCSA president as the organization renews its mssion and purpose 'to contribute concretely to the well-being of candidates preparing for priesthood and religious life.' January 16 -- Father Melvin C. Blanchette, S.S., rector of Theological College, and several seminarians traveled to Richmond, Virginia to attend the ordination of TC alumnus, John David Ramsey, a member of the Class of 2008, who was ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, January 16. Following completion of his formation at TC, John David was ordained a deacon in July, 2009, and had been serving at St. Joan of Arc in Yorktown since that time. November 17 -- Faculty and seminarians greeted 35 visiting bishops who attended a continental buffet breakfast sponsored by TC on Tuesday, November 17 at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott Hotel in downtown Baltimore during the annual fall meeting of the U.S. Bishops' Conference in November. October 6-7 -- The seminary honored two outstanding TC alumni at its annual Alumni Days award dinner on Wednesday evening, October 7. Father Lawrence B. Terrien, S.S. '72, a former member of the formation faculty at TC and two-term Sulpician Superior General, was honored with the Alumnus Lifetime Service Award. Dr. Gene Scapanski '68 received the Cardinal Bernardin Medal, the first lay-alumnus to receive the medal in seven years. A special two-day symposium celebrating the Vatican's Year for Priests was held Tuesday, October 6 and Wednesday, October 7 as part of TC's Alumni Days reunion. More than 60 alumni attended the lecture series which was held at Catholic University. The symposium was co-sponsored by TC and the university's School of Theology and Religous Studies with special underwriting by the Associated Sulpicians of the U.S. August 31 -- Twenty-six new seminarians, one of TC's largest groups of pre-and first year theologians and Basselin scholars, began their formation at TC and academic training in theology and philosophy at Catholic University. The group represents several new 'sending' arch/dioceses including: Baltimore, Great Falls-Billings, Lansing, Madison, Nanterre (FR), and Seattle. |
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