Bro. Tom Giardino, SM Executive Director “Our tradition is adaptation” were the words that the renowned Marianist historian, Fr. Joseph Verrier, SM, said in a conference to the Brothers in France in 1946. Verrier knew well how often our Founder, Fr. Chaminade, had moved on from the past and into an unknown future from the…

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Novea McIntosh, EdD., Associate Professor, Co-Program Director Urban Teacher Academy, School of Education and Health Sciences, University of Dayton As an Afro-Caribbean professor in education, Blessed Chaminade’s words – “New times call for new methods” – resonate deeply with both my personal journey and my professional mission. Raised in a culture rooted in oral tradition,…

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