Fr. Tom Stegman (1963–2023), former dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College, shares his story about how he learned to trust his inner voice and lean into God's calling on his life as he discerned his vocation in the priesthood and then after his cancer diagnosis at 22.
Fr. Tom Stegman, S.J., of the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus, was raised in Holdrege, Nebraska. He was a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia (B.A., Philosophy). He held an M.A. (Philosophy) from Marquette University, and both an M.Div. and S.T.L. (Hebrew Bible) from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He earned his Ph.D. in New Testament studies at Emory University. In his spare time, he followed the Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals, and Nebraska Cornhuskers.