The editors of Franciscan Way, the flagship quarterly of the University where I teach, recently asked members of the faculty to submit a paragraph or two reflecting on their experiences with students over the years. Having been on board since 1988 when, fresh from Rome, I first began taking notice of them, I decided to reply, dispatching a few hundred words on the subject. It turns out I’d written twice as many as they needed. So, I thought, why not press on with five or six hundred more,…