Annual Academic Prizes in Homiletics

Four prizes are awarded annually in Homiletics by the Rector of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Most Reverend Timothy C. Senior, to seminarians at closing academic exercises. 

These academic prizes are sponsored and funded by the Serra Club of Philadelphia.

The following seminarians were awarded prizes on May 18, 2022: 

First Theology Award in Honor of John J. Hallinan

Jordan Evans, Diocese of Arlington

Second Theology Award in Honor of Joseph Fricker

Jonah Brox, Diocese of Lincoln 

Third Theology Award in Memory of Joseph Howard Tyson, Jr.

Alexander Brown, Diocese of Allentown

Fourth Theology Award in Memory of Matthew H. McCloskey III

Matthew Kuna, Diocese of Allentown

Matthew H. McCloskey III founded the Serra Club of Philadelphia in 1952 and served as (1952) its first president.