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Ms. Kathleen Castillo

Director of Pastoral Formation

B.A., Daemen College
M.A., University of Chicago (School of Social Service Administration)
M.A.P.M., Christ the King Seminary

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Ms. Kathleen Castillo joined the SMSU academic and mentoring faculties in Fall 2025 to oversee pastoral formation. She served in the same role on the faculties of Saints Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, MI for four years and Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, NY for twenty years. Her work involves helping seminarians discern learning needs and goals toward their future priesthood. She provides orientation and professional support for supervisors who enable seminarians to experience spiritual, material and human ministry at community settings, parishes and hospitals. Ms. Castillo engages faculty, seminarians, and supervisors in the practice of theological reflection that enable students to deepen personal and ministerial understanding. In addition, professionals in various disciplines are brought to campus to help students deepen understanding and skill in various human and pastoral areas. Ms. Castillo’s greatest professional joy is sharing with others through group community-based efforts and learning, her passion to promote the dignity of the human person, just access to resources, and alternatives to violence.

Selected Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Theological Field Education
  • Introduction to Theological Field Reflection
  • Introduction to Supervised Ministry

Service to the Church

  • Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
  • Ministry of hospitality at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
  • Advisory committee for Clinical Pastoral Education, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, 2005- 2020

Service to the Community

  • Extraordinary minister of the Eucharist
  • Board of Directors, Prevention Council of Erie County, 2014 to 2022; Advocated to raise the age to purchase cough medicine with Dextromethorphan, unanimously passed the New York State Legislature and signed into law

Selected Publications

  • “Cruel Winter, Cruel Spring,” co-author of Study of Homelessness and plans to address homelessness in Detroit, Detroit Urban League, 1990
  • Buffalo News Op-Ed: “Grace Abounds on this Journey,” March 2, 2008
  • Buffalo News Op-Ed: “Another Voice: Sale of cough suppressant to minors must be banned,” June 21, 2013

Online Resources

Recommended Reading

  • Peter Drilling, Trinity and Ministry
  • Ann M. Garrido, Supervising a Ministry Student
  • Anthony Hunt: I’ve Seen the Promised Land: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 21st Century Quest for the Beloved Community
  • James D. Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Method in Ministry: Theological Reflection and Christian Ministry

Be attentive. Be intelligent. Be reasonable. Be responsible. Be in love. Bernard Lonergan, S.J.