Vincentian Fr. Louis Arceneaux of New Orleans explains his ministry as a priest during a table discussion at the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests on June 14 at the University of San Diego. (Dennis Sadowski)
BY DENNIS SADOWSKI
June 20 2023
When her son Andrés, then 19, came home for a weekend visit after his first week living in the dormitory for first-year students at Loyola Marymount University visibly upset, Cecilia González-Andrieu was quick to find out what was bothering him.
“He started crying,” González-Andrieu, now professor of theology and theological aesthetics at Loyola Marymount, told the audience of priests and laywomen gathered June 14 on the third day of the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests at the University of San Diego. ” ‘Mama,’ ” he told me, ” ‘it’s so awful how the kids in my dorm make these terrible messes, they throw trash everywhere, they waste food.’ “
Young Andrés was ecologically conscious, so obviously the waste was a concern, she thought.
“But surprisingly he continued, ‘Someone has to clean up after them, and she’s a nice lady, Mama, a little Latina señora.’ His eyes red, he added, ‘She looks like you. The other kids don’t see her. She’s not a person to them.’
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