Serra Club Congratulates 2025 Homiletics Prize Recipients
Feast of St. Augustine
The Serra Club of Philadelphia extends congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Homiletics Prizes awarded to four seminarians at the closing academic exercises at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Most Reverend Keith Chylinski, seminary rector, presented these academic awards to the following
seminarians on May 14, 2025:
First Theology Award in honor of John J. Hallinan
– Michael Gibbons, Diocese of Arlington
Second Theology Award in honor of Joseph Fricker
– Caleb Hansen, Diocese of Lincoln
Third Theology Award in honor of Joseph Howard Tyson, Jr.
– Thomas Cipolla, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Fourth Theology Award in memory of Matthew H. McCloskey III
– Cole Mase, Diocese of Harrisburg
Matthew H. McCloskey III founded the Serra Club of Philadelphia in 1952. The club funds these four
academic prizes each year.
