Everything Flannery O'Connor (Fr. Damian Ference) | Ep. 470
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Damian Ference is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland where he serves as Vicar for Evangelization, Secretary for Parish Life and Special Ministries, and as Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary. He holds a licentiate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He writes regularly on the intersection of faith and culture for a variety of outlets and is the author of the award-winning book, The Strangeness of Truth (Pauline Books & Media, 2019) and Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist (Word on Fire, 2023). Fr. Ference is the founder and director of {TOLLE LEGE} Summer Institute and is a life-time member of the Flannery O’Connor Society.
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| 0:00.0 | Father's Son, Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 0:01.6 | Father Damien Ference. |
| 0:03.6 | I don't know why I start my interviews by saying people's names with that amount of seriousness. |
| 0:07.7 | It's cool. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey, what's going on? |
| 0:11.6 | Here we are in Steubenville. |
| 0:13.0 | Back in Ohio. |
| 0:15.2 | Well, I'm from Ohio anyway, so it's only a two hour drive down here. |
| 0:18.8 | And it's good to be back with you. |
| 0:20.1 | I haven't seen you in a while. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah, I was saying, I mean, you are one of the first guests on Pines for Aquinas. |
| 0:25.4 | It's right. |
| 0:26.1 | Maybe 2017 or... |
| 0:28.3 | When did you start it? |
| 0:29.7 | I don't remember. |
| 0:30.1 | I think it was... |
| 0:31.1 | When did Trump run for office for the first time? |
| 0:33.2 | 16. |
| 0:33.6 | So 16. So 16. I remember sitting at my seminary desk and having to figure out earbuds. Yeah. And then |
| 0:40.3 | you had me have a glass of beer and I had to tell you what I was drinking. And I think we were, |
| 0:45.5 | we were, because there was before the video business. Yeah. And we were talking about the, |
| 0:50.7 | how to Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas is remedies for sorrow. I think, I think that was |
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