With Mary Brown, director of the archives of the Center for Migration Studies, we talk about how the presence of Scalabrinians in North America has changed from the first mission to today as well as of the importance of research and study in pastoral care.
Mary Brown received her doctorate in 1987 from Columbia University in the City of New York partly on the strength of her dissertation on Italian Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York from 1880 to 1930, which focused on how parishes persisted and adapted across generations. She has continued to research and write in that field. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College and works in the archives of the Center for Migration Studies, which is a mission of the Scalabrini Fathers of the Saint Charles Province, serving migrants from Canada to Venezuela.