Andrew WisdomAndrew Carl Wisdom, OP, DMin, currently serves as the Promoter of Vocations and the Director of The Society for Vocational Support for the Dominicans (Order of Preachers), Province of St. Albert the Great at the Provincial Headquarters in Chicago. Healso leads retreats and workshops for campus ministries, parishes, diocesan clergy and religious. Originally from the Chicago area, Fr. Wisdom is one of 12 children. He earned an undergraduate degree in Social Work and worked in management positions for several not-for-profit organizations before becoming a Dominican Friar. Fr. Wisdom earned his MA in Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome where he spent four years as a diocesan seminarian at the North American College before being ordained a deacon at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. After experiencing a "call within a call," he received the permission of his bishop to join the Order of Preachers. The Dominicans sent him to Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis for a Doctorate in Preaching. He currently resides with the Dominican Friars at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago. Read More Read Less