{"id":2194,"date":"2017-03-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/meaningful-dialogue-encouraged-at-founders-day\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:45:00","slug":"meaningful-dialogue-encouraged-at-founders-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/meaningful-dialogue-encouraged-at-founders-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningful Dialogue Encouraged at Founders Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dialogue is mainly listening with the goal of understanding and generating new ideas to make the world a better place, Sister Kathleen Kanet told an audience at Marymount University.<\/p>\n

\u0093Every one of us is different,\u0094 Kanet said. \u0093I believe that God created us unique and wonderful and blessed, and we have within us the thing to make peace and do justice. But we have to believe that ourselves.\u0094<\/p>\n

Kanet and Sister Virginia Dorgan of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM) were the keynote speakers at Marymount\u0092s Fifth Annual Founders\u0092 Day, which honors the Catholic university\u0092s founding order. It was a homecoming for both. Kane\u0092s first mission was an assignment at Marymount in 1963. Dorgan is an Arlington native who attended Marymount High School, housed at the time on the Marymount University campus.<\/p>\n

For many years they ran The Network for Peace through Dialogue in New York City, a non-profit organization they founded that was dedicated to connecting grassroots communities, both local and global, in order to identify and research common issues and solutions in the areas of making peace and promoting just action. It ended formal operations on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

Dorgan touched on the RSHM tradition of education and addressing social issues. Today, it deals with issues ranging from immigration to human trafficking.<\/p>\n

\u0093Each one of us has to do our part,\u0094 she said, noting the importance of serving the common good instead of \u0093worrying about how I can get more and more.\u0094<\/p>\n

The speakers were introduced by Sister Jackie Murphy, RSHM, who is in her 50th year at the 62-year-old university. She said for 25 years Dorgan and Kanet ran the Network of Peace through Dialogue out of their New York City apartment.<\/p>\n

\u0093I stand in awe at what they did,\u0094 Murphy said.<\/p>\n

The sisters gave the crowd gathered in Marymount\u0092s private dining room a handout with the following dialogue practices:<\/p>\n