Our Teaching Ministries

Many of our C.PP.S. priests and brothers are engaged in the ministry of teaching, from elementary school to post-graduate courses.

The Missionaries sponsor two colleges, Saint Joseph's College and Calumet College of St. Joseph.

St. Joseph's College was founded in 1888 when Bishop Joseph Dwenger, a C.PP.S. missionary, encouraged his congregation to take on a college mission in a then-remote area in northwestern Indiana. Today it educates over 1,000 undergraduates, mind and soul, on its beautiful rural campus.

All students at St. Joseph's College complete an innovative Core curriculum, a program of theology, philosophy and ethics that places them at home in the culture of Christ. The college also serves a unique role in its diocese of Lafayette, Ind., in the training of ecclesial lay ministers.

From its humble beginnings in a storefront in East Chicago, Ind., Calumet College of St. Joseph is now known as one of the most ethnically diverse small colleges in the United States.

With a current enrollment of 1,340, it serves many traditional and nontraditional students in its urban neighborhood, offering an education to single parents, blue-collar workers hoping to broaden their opportunities, and others who might not otherwise be able to afford the dream of a college education.

The C.PP.S. is also a member community of Catholic Theological Union (CTU) in Chicago, the largest theological school in the United States. Our candidates attend classes at CTU, and some of our Missionaries teach there, among them Father Robert J. Schreiter, C.PP.S., currently CTU's Bernardin Center Vatican II Professor of Theology.

Members also minister to younger children at elementary and high schools and in parish religious education programs.

Photograph: Top: Father Kevin Scalf, C.PP.S., anoints the hands of a St. Joseph's College athlete at a commissioning service at the beginning of the school year. Bottom: Calumet College of St. Joseph.