Rev. Thomas F. Dailey, O.S.F.S. – Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary

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Thomas F. Dailey, O.S.F.S.

John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics & Social Communications; Project Director of the Catholic Preaching Institute; Professor of Theology

• Phone: (610) 785-6267

• E-mail: tdailey@scs.edu

Fr. Dailey joined the Seminary faculty full-time in 2017-18 as the inaugural John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics & Social Communications. In January 2024, he also assumed direction of The Catholic Preaching Institute at the Seminary. He has given more than 600 presentations throughout the US and internationally on topics in Salesian Spirituality, Social Communications, Catholic Education, and Biblical Theology. He has written, edited or translated ten books and more than eighty contributions to a variety of scholarly and pastoral publications worldwide. He is featured among the members at CatholicSpeakers.com and has appeared on television, radio, and podcast programs in both regional and national markets. For the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he served on the Communications Committee for the World Meeting of Families and Visit of Pope Francis to the USA in 2015; he also served as the Episcopal Delegate for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Father Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. Fr. Dailey first professed vows in the religious congregation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (O.S.F.S.) in 1980, was ordained to the diaconate in St. Peter’s Basilica (Rome) in 1986, and was ordained to the priesthood in St. Anthony of Padua Church (Wilmington, DE) in 1987.

S.T.D. - Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy (1993)
S.T.L. - Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy (1988)
S.T.B. - Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy (1986)
B.A. - Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, Center Valley, PA (1981)

The John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics & Social Communications, and Professor of Theology (2017-present)
Project Director, The Catholic Preaching Institute at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary (2024-present)
Presenter in the Sophia Institute for Teachers (2015-present)
Presenter in the Center for Church Management at Villanova University (2018-2024)
Fr. Louis Brisson Chair & Founding Director, Salesian Center for Faith & Culture at DeSales University (1988-2017)

author of Behold This Heart: St. Francis de Sales and Devotion to the Sacred Heart (Sophia Institute Press, 2021)
editor and contributor, Love is The Perfection of the Mind (DeSales University, 2017)
author of Live Today Well: St. Francis de Sales’ Simple Approach to Holiness (Sophia Institute Press, 2015)
editor of Sermons on the Eucharist (Salesian Center for Faith & Culture, 2005)
editor of With Mind and Heart Renewed (University Press of America, 2001)
author of Praying with Francis de Sales (St. Mary’s Press, 1997)
author of The Repentant Job: A Ricoeurian Icon for Biblical Theology (University Press of America, 1994)
translator of St. Francis de Sales as Preacher: a Study (Indian Institute of Spirituality, 1992)

“Homiletic Pedagogy as Formation Work” - for the Seminar on Homiletic Pedagogy at the University of Notre Dame (2024)
"Eucharist: The Actual Presence of Jesus in a Digital World" - in the Benedictine College Symposium on Transforming Culture (2023)
"Salesian Spirituality for Today's Clergy" - workshops for the Clergy of the Diocese of Manchester, NH (2022)
"The Craft of Preaching" - workshops for Priests of the Diocese of Harrisburg, PA (2021)
"Digital Discipleship: Encounters with Jesus in an Online World" - workshop for the convocation of Catholic Leaders, Diocese of Camden (2019)
"The Church at 30,000 Feet: Pope Francis's Press Conferences" - in the international conference at Villanova University (2018)
"Preaching as Praying: Complementary Methodologies from St. Francis de Sales" - at the convocation of Priests, Diocese of Allentown (2017)
"From Upper Room to Board Room: Leadership in Today's Church" - for the national Board of Directors & Advisory Board of Catholic Leadership Institute (2017)
"Salesian Simplicity: A Little Virtue Goes a Long Way" - in the annual Ethics & Culture conference at University of Notre Dame (2010)
"The Adventure of Phenomenology with John Paul II" - the inaugural Edith Stein Lecture at Immaculata University (2005)
"The Religious Character of Our National Pastime" - in the Cooperstown Conference on Baseball and American Culture (2002)

Academy of Catholic Theology (since 2013)
Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics (since 2018)
Catholic Speakers Organization

Honors & Awards

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement honoree (2020)
Liberty Bell Award from the Bar Association of Lehigh County on the 50th anniversary of Law Day (2008)
21st Century Award for Achievement, International Biographical Centre (2003)
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (1996, 2000, 2002, 2007)
Honorary Life Membership, Knights of Columbus (1991)

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