by cduggan@vincentian.org | Feb 28, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
My father ran for the office of mayor of our small town when I was in high school. He ran out of a sense of doing his civic duty and wanting to make a difference. Our town was on the Mississippi river in Illinois and otherwise peaceful and a comfortable place to live...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Feb 22, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
I had an appointment with my dentist recently. I always look forward to seeing Larry—I think all his patients call him Larry—even though my time with him is always short and I really cannot talk much with his hands in my mouth. I have been seeing him for more than 30...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Feb 14, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
A young woman in a TV news report was explaining very nicely that if her child wanted to wear a mask as school he could. If he did not want to wear a mask at school, he did not have to. My immediate thought was, and if he wanted to play with a loaded gun, would that...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Feb 8, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
A while back, one of my students retired from her job in the government sector. At the retirement party, signs appeared around the room quoting one of her mantras, “Hire no jerks.” She learned that from me in class at DePaul University. She told me that principle had...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Feb 7, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
Rev. Anthony Dosen, C.M., heads the Mission Office for the Congregation of the Mission Western Province. This is the first in a series of monthly articles he is producing on the subject of evangelization in the modern Church. The American Scene: The COVID crisis is...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Jan 26, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
Yesterday was Foundation Day. I walked through the DePaul University Student Center, which was full of tables, and students chatting up the founding of the Vincentian Family by St. Vincent de Paul 405 years ago. They were giving away every kind of tchotchke...
