Seminary Presentation

Earlier this year, two priests who serve as Missionaries of Mercy for our Holy Father Pope Francis traveled to San Antonio to visit with seminarians at Assumption Seminary.

During the visit, Monsignor Ted Bertagni and Father Bernard Olszewski shared the mission of Cross Catholic Outreach to transform lives and communities for the glory of God through works of mercy.

They also offered seminarians the opportunity to visit our ministry partners in developing nations during their academic year, so as to experience the suffering Christ in our world through the lives of the poorest of the poor.

Learn more about our mission to engage seminarians in the fight against poverty at CrossCatholic.org/parish-and-school/seminary.

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Monsignor Ted Bertagni

Monsignor Bertagni is the Director of Clergy and Diocesan Relations for Cross Catholic Outreach, He was ordained a priest in 1978 in Omaha, NE and invested as Monsignor in 1999. He was a Conventual Franciscan in Our Lady of Consolation Province and is presently incardinated into the Diocese of Mandeville Jamaica. Msgr. Bertagni has an international background having studied and lived in Europe and Caribbean. He holds STL and STD degrees from Sant’ Anselmo, the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. He served 20 years as a parish priest, pastor and professor, before dedicating himself full time to the service of the poor. In 2016, he was commissioned as a Missionary of Mercy by Pope Francis.