Stacey Noem

Professor of the Practice
Director of Human and Spiritual Formation, MDiv Program

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Office
129 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-4619
Phone
+1 574-631-0356
Email
snoem@nd.edu

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Biography

Stacey is currently the Director of Human and Spiritual Formation for lay students in the Masters of Divinity program. She came from our sister Holy Cross institution, the University of Portland in Oregon where she served for 7 years in Campus Ministry as Assistant Director of Faith Formation. She is a founding member of the World Network of Professional Lay Ministers and serves on their board. She is part of the Jesuit Media Lab, recently completed an extended term as an officer for the Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry, and was a former member of the Executive Board of the Catholic Campus Ministry Association. In 2014 she worked with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps to reshape their domestic orientation program nationally. A former Jesuit Volunteer in Alaska, she has also worked extensively with JVC:NW, PACE, Echo, and the House of Brigid on community formation and development. Stacey received her Masters of Divinity from the University of Notre Dame in 2005. Raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida, she has been married since 1998 and has three pretty great children.

Research Interests

Formation of Ecclesial Ministers; Leadership, Authority, and Power; Ecclesiology; Community Formation and Development; Marriage and Family Life.

Selected Publications

"We Stand or Fall Together: A Century of Co-Responsibility", Church Life Journal, 2024. 

"We need to stop separating seminarians from lay ministers in formation", America Magazine, 2019.

"Evangelizing with a Beautiful, Persuasive Invitation" 

Happily Even After blog for USCCB 

"How to Take Young Children to Mass"

Education

  • B.A. French Language and Literature, University of Notre Dame (1998)
  • B.S. Preprofessional Studies, University of Notre Dame (1999)
  • Master of Divinity, University of Notre Dame (2005)