Catholic Theological Union

Catholic Theological Union

Latin: Unio Catholica Theologica
Motto	Preparing effective leaders for the Church, ready to witness to Christ's good news of justice, love, and peace.
Type	Private, Seminary
Established	1968
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Endowment	$44 million (2015-2016)
Chancellor	The Reverend Donald P. Senior
President	The Very Reverend Mark R. Francis
Dean	Barbara E. Reid
Academic staff	23 full-time, 8 part-time, 11 adjunct, 4 visiting
Administrative staff	56
Postgraduates	ca. 304
Location	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Association of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS), Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), DePaul University, Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, University of Chicago Divinity School
Website	www.ctu.edu

Catholic Theological Union (CTU), located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, is one of the largest Roman Catholic graduate schools of theology in the English speaking world and trains men and women for lay and ordained ministry within the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1968, when three religious institutes united their separate theology programs to form one school.

Since its inception, CTU has been blessed with a rich diversity reflecting the global church itself: a student body representing forty-six countries worldwide; religious order seminarians, sisters, and brothers and lay women and men; students of varying ages and backgrounds. Its distinguished Catholic faculty also includes scholars from the Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. And over the years CTU’s programs have expanded to address the intercultural needs of the Church in an increasingly global society.

CTU alums now number more than 4,000 serving the Church across the United States and in sixty countries worldwide. They work in parishes, homeless shelters, prisons, hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, gang ministry, hospices, social service organizations, and myriad other ministry settings.

CTU is also home to The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry (in honor of the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin). Its many initiatives include the Catholic Common Ground Initiative (CCGI), the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (the Perelmuter Conferences and Shapiro Lectures), the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program, Catholics on Call, the In Good Faith interreligious dialogue programs, the Peacebuilders Initiative (2003-2015), as well as several established faculty chair appointments.

In addition, CTU is home to the Biblical Study and Travel Programs, the Hesburgh Sabbatical Program, the Institute of Religious Formation, and the Summer Institute.

The faculty is composed of a variety of religious affiliations: Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, and Muslim. The student body is multi-ethnic and international in composition, and graduates of the school minister in a large variety of ways throughout the world.