Off and Running: A New Record Year

The Pontifical North American College, my seminary here in Rome, made Zenit News (a Catholic News Service on the Internet), yesterday. It highlights that the new 1st Theology class (I'm 2nd Theology, because it's my second year here) has 61 men, the largest class ever and puts the college almost at capacity with 208 seminarians studying to be priests or finishing their licentiates, (fancy word for "masters") which are in different specializations of theology: fundamental theology, canon law, moral theology, spirituality, Church history, Patrology a.k.a. Church Fathers, liturgy, Scripture, etc...

 For the full Zenit News Article...

Other news from the NAC...

We've just finished building a new sports field with artificial turf. The field has already become the envy of Rome and can probably be spotted from airplane above, by the three red letters "N-A-C" in the middle of the field. Earlier this week the Bishop of Sante Fe, New Mexico blessed the field. Our NAC soccer team that placed 4th in the Clericus Cup tournament sponsored by the Vatican for the seminaries in Rome will have quite an upgrade in practice facilities this year. The Vatican also started a Clericus Cup Basketball tournament last year, which the NAC handily won, thus showing the world that basketball really is an American sport and if the USA can have an Olympic Gold Medal Team, then there is no surprise that their seminarians would have just dominate team in the Ecclesiastical World as well...