The Quest Never Loses Its Savor Who was this young student-sister whose final essay in English comp at Rosary College she titled “The Image of Man in Western Civilization” (Sister Julie said, “Let Christopher Dawson do this.”) And whose final paper for her MA she titled “Man in Search.” (inclusive language had not yet been invented.) It could only be the daughter of a mother and father, Third Order Dominicans, whose daily reading as she grew up was publications like America , Commonweal , Integrity , and The Catholic Worker . Not that I understood a word of it--though I did try, once… But I did catch the Dominican quest-bug, even as we children crouched near the radio for “Nick Carter Master Detective” and “The Shadow” while our parents went off on Sunday afternoons to Marquette Poetry Teas and meetings of the Thomist Association they started for the theological education of laity. Thus, I found myself, three years after my sist...
