• Increased financial assistance for deserving seminarians.

• Record levels of enrollment: Currently nearly 500 students including 93 seminarians preparing for the priesthood. Another 1,000 priests and lay persons participating in continuing education programs.

• Global recognition: The important work of Sacred Heart Major Seminary is being recognized around the world as students hail from South America, Africa, and even China.

• Much needed renovations to our building.

• Recruitment of the most dedicated and highly credentialed seminary faculty in the nation.

• Development of innovative programs that prepare our students for the pastoral challenges of delivering the message of Christ in this modern secularized society. This includes the new Licentiate in Sacred Theology in the New Evangelization—the first program of its kind in the United States.

• Acquiring new educational technology that enables us to provide access to our programs around the world.

• Training well-formed, happy, and holy priests, deacons, and lay ministers who bring the love and mercy of God to all of us.

Questions? email annualfund@shms.edu or call (313) 883-8567.