Fr. Gregory Pine

each human being can have the confidence that his life her life is not an accident there might be bad things that happen you may have experienced some measure of pain a heaping helping of suffering seeming incoherences but it's part of a story and that story redounds to god's glory and potentially your salvation and so you can have the confidence that if you gaze into it it won't be the void that gazes back

I don't know if this is more preachy than your show ordinarily is, but I kind of can't help myself.

Good question.

Let me think about that.

I'm done thinking.

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Thomas Aquinas is a touchstone of the Catholic intellectual tradition.

in short he inherited like the main insights of those who went before him and he communicates them in a way that's readily available to those who have come since so sometimes in the 21st century people about like they'll talk about saint thomas aquinas as if he were complicated or overly complex but the reason for which we still talk about him is that he managed to communicate

in as coherent a way as one can for complex things.

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Thomas, in effect, the work that he undertakes is to kind of translate the divine wisdom to human concepts.

And yeah, I don't know exactly if that's the best way to kind of qualify it, but he's referred to as the common doctor of the church because he inherited the main findings of those who went before him.

You know, he's a deep reader of sacred scripture.

He's engaging with the fathers of the church in really, really subtle and beautiful ways.

And then he's communicating the faith in its integrity.

So he's not just like, I like this, that, and the other thing, and I'm going to talk about them until the cows come home.

He tries to communicate the faith as it flows from God and as it conducts us back to God.

So yeah, if I were to summarize it in three adjectives, he's wise, he's holy, and he's comprehensive.

So I think it's true.

So St.