Cardinal Glennon College is the undergraduate seminary formation program of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, which comprises the first two stages of priestly formation—Propaedeutic and Discipleship—as laid out by the Program of Priestly Formation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is a community of faith, formation, and learning that fosters in its students an integrated Christian maturity in four dimensions—human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral—and assists its students in their discernment of God’s presence and call in their lives, especially the call to the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
The seminary experience is conceived on the whole as “a continuation of the apostolic community gathered around Jesus, listening to his word, proceeding toward the Easter experience, awaiting the gift of the Spirit for the mission” (see PPF6, no. 10, quoting Pastores Dabo Vobis). More particularly, it is a cooperation with the grace of the Holy Spirit, by which seminary students make themselves available to the God who dwells in them and who transforms them into the very image of Jesus Christ the eternal High Priest. Such a cooperation with grace entails above all that students take responsibility for their own formation and hold themselves accountable to one another, to the seminary, and to the Church.
Cardinal Glennon College operates a collaborative-model undergraduate intellectual formation program conjointly with the College of Philosophy and Letters of Saint Louis University. Seminarians complete two years of general education requirements at the University, and two years of philosophy and theology requirements at the seminary campus, culminating in the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University.
