Category Archives: Learn

I’m a product of public-school education (elementary through high school), and Catholic universities and public community colleges.  Those experiences provided me with knowledge, tools to critically apply that knowledge, and reinforced the values learned from my family.  Education has utilitarian … Continue reading →

Knowledge to Love As summer’s heat subsides and vacation time is over, school begins for young and old. Summer is ending; education continues. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux and Doctor of the Church, wrote … Continue reading →

Mission and Mercy On June 16, I participated in a webinar How A Church On the Move Engages the World: Putting Mission and Mercy in Action featuring Joe Paprocki, DMin, National Consultant for Faith Formation for Loyola Press, a Jesuit … Continue reading →

‘Mardi Gras, Katrina’, ‘The City that Care forgot’, ‘When the Saints go Marching In’. All terms evoking thoughts of New Orleans, La where the four-day 25th Annual Social Action Summer Institute (SASI) – “Focus on the Worker: ‘New Things” in … Continue reading →