AMU Newsletter
Newest Diaconate Formation Cohort Welcomed
Thirty-six Chaminade students received a warm welcome on campus recently as they prepare to embark on a journey that is as much spiritual as it is scholarly.
The students are part of the newest diaconate formation cohort at Chaminade.
Benjamin “Josh” Doty, Ph.D., St. Mary’s University Chair of the Department of English Literature
I’ve always appreciated that our Marianist charism encourages us to foster new ideas in response to a changing world. When my colleagues and I began discussing creating a Medical Humanities program at St. Mary’s three years ago…
Read MoreTradition, Change, and Transitions
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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