Soy de Duval

Lately, to take a break from my current writing project, I have been taking a look at some of my earlier writings. Today I ran across this column that appeared in several Texas newspapers. Personally, it is an eye-opener. Hope you enjoy it, as well as my intellectual growth from that time.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hispanic studies at A&M are long overdue February 11, 2004 Texas A&M University has announced that it will offer a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies. Several years ago I may have found that idea gratuitous but today I think I would say, "it's about time."  As an impetuous young man, I had little time for history. Why should I be concerned about what others had done years, even centuries before my time? I was interested in the here and now and perhaps more importantly in what was coming just down the road. History was for chumps and squares who had nothing better to do. As fa

I moved my website to a new domain server and thought all the links would work. Most do but my blogs are going to this page. I'm a writer. What do I know about web development? 😧 I'll be working on updating the links but if you run into a broken link please comment on the post so I will be notified and I can update the link. Thank you.

TOPICS:  Catholic Church San Diego Catholic Church St. Francis De Paula POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   FEBRUARY 6, 2016 St. Francis de Paula School ,  Photo by Kevin Smithwick. In a Facebook post in support of National Catholic Schools Week this week I wrote that I learned to write at St. Francis de Paula Catholic School in San Diego. Indeed, many of my contemporaries and older natives of San Diego probably went to the school. But that brought up a question that I’ve had on and off for years; just who was St. Francis de Paula? Generations have been dutifully meeting their Sunday Mass obligations at that beautiful church in San Diego, but are they familiar with the parish’s patron saint? I’m not. So let’s remedy that now. St. Frans de Paula Before reviewing his early life, it is important to take a look at why he was chosen as the patron saint of the church in San Diego. The first pastor at San Diego was Claude Jaillet, a Frenchman. Although St. Francis was Italian by birth, he ser