Reverend Kurt R. Young, D.Min.


Reverend Kurt R. Young, D.Min.

Vice-Rector / Coordinator of Propaedeutic Formation / Coordinator of Human Formation / Chair of Homiletics

Fr. Kurt R. Young is a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  He grew up in St. Edward the Confessor Parish in Metairie, LA, and graduated from Archbishop Rummel High School. After completing one year of studies at Louisiana State University, he went on to graduate from college seminary at St. Joseph Seminary College in St. Benedict, LA. Fr. Young spent four years in formation for priesthood at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and received a Masters in Divinity (2012). Following his seminary formation, Fr. Young went on to receive his Doctorate in Ministry in Preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO (2021). Fr. Young was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on June 2, 2012.

Throughout his more than decade-long ministry as a priest, Fr. Young served as Parochial Vicar of St. Philip Neri Parish in Metairie, LA, as well as the Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of New Orleans for five years. In 2019, Fr. Young was granted permission to serve as a Chaplain in the United States Navy Reserve and was mobilized to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa, for seven and a half months in 2022. Fr. Young is a Lieutenant (O-3) in the United States Navy, currently serving as a member of the Religious Support at Marine Forces Reserve in Algiers, LA.

Fr. Young joined the faculty of Notre Dame Seminary in 2019 as a Formation Advisor and the Director of Human Formation. He currently serves as the Vice-Rector of Propaedeutic Formation/Coordinator of Human Formation, and he is the Director of Homiletics and Preaching.

Contact

Phone: 504-866-7426 ext. 124

Email: kyoung@nds.edu