Seminary Characters — part two

I have a few more profiles of brothers studying with the Legion here in Rome.

The Sure Steady Support

As I have mentioned before, I am the chief librarian. One of my biggest helpers help here is quite the opposite of me. He is a man of quiet and reserve. If we had an award for which brother lives silence the best, he would win hands down.

There are a whole bunch of jobs in a library that are very repetitive. He happily and consistently does all of these. While I am here, responding to 101 requests, he is putting the books that were dropped off or sticking new labels on the books.

I think how we work together shows how different personalities help each other to achieve an end that is beyond one or the other alone.

Il Dottore

There, right before the professor, sits the one student who has studied most. He has a medical degree and a doctorate in something I can’t quite understand regarding the frontiers of medicine. (Personally, I was more interested in physics and didn’t like the thought of cutting up dead animals suspended in formaldehyde so I never got so far in biology.)

He even had to delay his entry date to the Legion to finish his doctorate.

Now, along with our full class schedule, he teaches some course on bioethics to some of the younger brothers and works regarding neuro-bioethics. For the uninitiated, that means ethics about technology that changing how the brain operates.

I am sure this will help people. Maybe by the time we are ordained together I will understand it.

About Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC

In 2001, I traveled from Calgary, Canada to join the Legion. Since then I’ve been all over North America and spent some time in Rome. I currently reside in Washington doing a bunch of writing and taking care of the community while studying my Licentiate in Theology (between Masters and Doctorate). I’m most well-known on Instagram and Twitter where I have about 6,500 and 40,000 followers respectively.
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