The High School Seminary


We Offer:

- An excellent four year college prep academic program in a Catholic environment which encourages and challenges students to reach their full potential.

- A holistic approach to education emphasizing: physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual growth and maturity in a healthy atmosphere which encourages and fosters the building of positive friendships among peers and with young women.

- A four year formation program assisting in the development of a spiritual life and a relationship with God while offering opportunities, in a supportive environment, to explore and develop the vocational question of priesthood in their lives.

- Positive role-modeling and reinforcement of priesthood as a life choice through an active priest presence on our faculty.

- A dedicated and qualified faculty who with their academic, religious and formational skills teach, through positive instruction and role-modeling Gospel virtues: religious, moral and ethical values for life.

- A Catholic values based education emphasizing the importance of Gospel service, providing our students with numerous opportunities for service within the Quigley community, their neighborhoods, and their parishes.


We Do Not:

- Offer an inferior education, academically or socially, nor accept poor study habits and academic failure in our students.

- Encourage unhealthy peer pressure or accept peer criticism among our students.

- Ordain young men as priests after four years in our high school seminary. Preparation for priesthood requires four years of study after high school graduation at the minor college seminary, St. Joseph Seminary, and four more years of study at the Major Seminary, University of St. Mary of the Lake.

- Pressure our young men into choosing priesthood as a life choice or encourage them to prematurely foreclose on other options in their lives. Rather, we encurage them to develop their gifts and talents and listen to God's call, wherever it may lead.

- Diminish the personal qualities, gifts, and dedication of our faculty nor do we accept a faculty member who is unwilling to avail himself or herself to help our students beyond the school day.