Posted May 29, 2019

Harvard University scholar Jacqueline C. Rivers spoke to seminarians, priests and lay people gathered May 15 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary for the annual Concursus ceremony in which administrators conferred academic degrees from the seminary. Rivers, who accepted an honorary doctoral degree, challenged her audience which included future leaders in the church to be spiritual leaders, to resist the culture of materialism, to help change structures of injustice and inequality in society and to have a “commitment to integrity” regarding their personal relationships and conduct. Archbishop Charles Chaput led the conferral of degrees, and told the graduates to model St. John Vianney and “remain humble and simple. The more you are so, the more good you will do.”  (Photos by Sarah Webb)

  • Archbishop Charles Chaput confers an honorary doctoral degree on Harvard University scholar Dr. Jacqueline Rivers. She is the executive director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies.

  • Dr. Jacqueline Rivers gives the Concursus address in St. Martin’s Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary as her family listens in the front row.

  • Graduates of St. Charles Seminary’s academic programs stop to greet Jacqueline Rivers after receiving their degrees.

  • Fourth college seminarian Gregory Miller gives the student address at Concursus.

  • Father Francesco D’Amico, who would be ordained a priest just days after Concursus, receives his Master of Arts in theology degree from Archbishop Charles Chaput.

  • Bishop Timothy Senior, rector of St. Charles Seminary, addresses the audience in St. Martin’s Chapel.

  • Seminarians and the seminary community conclude the academic year through prayer and worship during a baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Bishop Timothy Senior, rector of the seminary, on Tuesday, May 14.

  • Seminarians lead the procession into St. Martin Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary during baccalaureate Mass May 14, 2019.

  • Seminarians process out of St. Martin Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood. (Photo by Sarah Webb)

  • Bishop Timothy Senior, seminary faculty and administrators pose for a photo with seminarians outside St. Martin’s Chapel after baccalaureate Mass May 14.