For the last 10 days, there’s been little opportunity to explore the city of Rome. The scheduled activities of the day begin at 8:45 with Morning Prayer (although my days often begin at 5:30-6:00 with a trip down to the seminary gym. While I expected to be the only one there at that hour, I […]

For the last week we’ve been in class 4-5 hours per day with Fr. John Fuellenbach, SVD – a noted Catholic theologian.  When Fr. Fuellenbach first introduced himself to us, he spent a few minutes talking about his educational background – which included classes taught by Karl Rahner and others taught by Cardinal Ratzinger.  He […]

There are 34 of us participating in the ‘Institute for Continuing Theological Education’ (ICTE) here at the North American College here in Rome.   Our group includes priests from across the US and Canada, as well as a gentleman from Australia and two priests from American Samoa.  During one of our days of orientation we learned that […]