Office of Mission and Ministry
The Office of Mission and Ministry is charged with ensuring that Seton Hall fulfills its Catholic mission. We oversee the initiatives listed below, work to infuse Catholic values, faith and intellectual heritage throughout the University and help promote the University's efforts at developing servant leaders.
Bernard J. Lonergan Institute
The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute promotes Lonergan's teaching that an intimate knowledge of one's own mind can open the door to an even broader scope of knowledge. It offers a variety of lectures, programs and conferences based on theology, interdisciplinary philosophy and economics.
Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership
The Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership promotes openness to God's call in both the academic life and common life of the University to support the overall mission of forming students as servant leaders for today's world.
Center for Catholic Studies
The Center for Catholic Studies works to create a dialogue between the Catholic tradition and contemporary culture and actively promotes the study of religion and culture. It offers a major and a minor in Catholic studies for undergraduate students.
Campus Ministry
Campus Ministry offers programs and events for students aimed at spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We help to create a campus environment that fosters spiritual, moral, liturgical and sacramental development in our students.
Department of Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts and a minor in religious studies. Our courses give students an understanding of Christian theology, of religion in general, and its context in society, culture and politics.
DOVE
The Division of Volunteer Efforts seeks to raise awareness of social injustice through service to others. We seek to affirm the dignity of all people by visiting nursing homes, working with disabled children, volunteering at soup kitchens and through numerous other activities.
The GK Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture
The GK Chesterton Institute promotes the G.K. Chesterton's call for a deepened moral and social imagination through conferences, lecture series, research, writing and through publication of the journal, The Chesterton Review.
Graduate Department of Jewish Christian Studies
Seton Hall University's Graduate Department of Jewish-Christian Studies offers a Master of Arts degree in Jewish-Christian Studies covering all aspects of the historical relationships between Jews and Christians, their respective values and traditions.
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
The Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (ICSST) is the graduate school of theology of Seton Hall University and the major seminary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. ICSST admits both seminarians studying for the Catholic priesthood and lay students.
Institute for Christian Spirituality
The Institute for Christian Spirituality was created to provide a premier center where those already in ministry, or those considering a vocation in ministry, may obtain a solid foundation in their faith, learn effective skills in pastoral ministry and leadership, and be given tools for discernment and spiritual growth - all in an atmosphere of collaboration and camaraderie.
Institute on Work
The Institute on Work offers research materials and evaluative mechanisms to promote personal integrity, competence and justice in the workplace. The Institute designs service programs to assist the unemployed in skill assessment and training to enter or re-enter the workforce.
International Institute for Clergy Formation
The International Institute for Clergy Formation provides graduate education to Catholic priests that addresses body, soul and spirit. We conduct a summer and a winter institute and also offer an online Master of Arts degree.
Sister Rose Thering Endowment
The Sister Rose Thering Endowment awards tuition scholarships to teachers and administrators in public, private, and parochial schools for courses in the Graduate Department of Jewish-Christian Studies. Our goal is to foster understanding through education and inter-religious cooperation.
