Nineteen degrees and thirteen certificates were awarded at the 178th annual commencement of Saint Vincent Seminary, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, held on Friday, May 10, in the Archabbey Basilica. Commencement speaker Sister Judith Marie Kubicki, C.S.S.F., gave the address and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. She is the provincial minister for the Felician Sisters of North America, Our Lady of Hope Province, with headquarters in Beaver Falls.
Seminarians from the Archdiocese of Hanoi, and the dioceses of Allentown, Brooklyn, Charleston, Greensburg and Pittsburgh, from Belmont Abbey, North Carolina, as well as Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, received degrees.
This commencement is the first conferral of academic credentials by the Saint Vincent Seminary Institute for Ministry Formation, and includes students who completed the program in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Members of religious orders from Saint Joseph Monastery in Lucerne Valley, California; Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Church, Spokane, Washington; and Saint Emma Monastery in Greensburg, as well as lay persons from throughout the country earned degrees and certificates from the IMF.
Pictured with the Saint Vincent Seminary Institute for Ministry Formation (IMF) staff are students who received degrees and certificates from the IMF at the Seminary’s Friday, May 10, commencement. Front, from left, are Dr. Helene Paharik, associate professor of theology; Barbara Kralik of Pittsburgh, certificate in spiritual direction; Sister Maria Johanna Uhlott, O.S.B., Saint Emma Monastery, Greensburg, certificate in spiritual direction; Brother Minh Pham, O.Cist., Saint Joseph Monastery, Lucerne Valley, California, Master of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in ministry and certificates in Catholic theology and spiritual direction; Father Boniface Hicks, O.S.B., director of the IMF. In row two are, from left, Michael Joseph King of Allen Park, Michigan, certificate in spiritual direction; Anita Wright, assistant program manager, IMF; Bobbie Anne Abson, project manager, IMF; Kristin Molitor, parish outreach coordinator, IMF.
