Father Michael Wurtz, CSC, SLD began teaching at King's College (PA) in the Fall of 2019. After receiving his BA and MDiv from the University of Notre Dame, he professed Final Vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross and was ordained a priest in 2004. After serving for three years as Associate Pastor of a South Bend parish, he earned an MA in Liturgical Studies from St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN. Having assisted for a year at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and taught in Notre Dame’s theology department, he began doctoral studies in Liturgical Studies at the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo, Rome. His dissertation reviewed the recent textual history of liturgical formation for the priesthood and how it interacts with the theological approaches of A. Schumann, A. Kavanagh, and D. Fagerberg.
