Leadership Development
Preparation for leadership in the Catholic Church today must embrace the collaborative environment in which ministers serve. The M.Div. program at Notre Dame is ideally suited to prepare students for collaborative leadership. Seminarians and lay people share and enrich each other’s formation by studying, praying, and conversing together. The wide variety of experiences fostered by field education and other Notre Dame resources, as well as the variety of backgrounds among the students, incorporates many different perspectives into the collaborative mix, helping to make students creative, flexible, dynamic thinkers and doers.
Through our educational initiatives, you will be prepared to take up the challenge to preach God’s word, to lead in worship and service, and to nurture the faith of others. Faculty, ministry supervisors, and spiritual mentors assist you in learning how to work with people of various ages, religious traditions, and cultural heritages. You get both the theology and the experience you’ll need to exercise leadership in contemporary ecclesial ministry.
