Love, Friendship, and Heavenly Happiness | Prof. Christopher Kaczor

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 19, 2022 at the University of Dallas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he serves as a Consultor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He graduated from the Honors Program of Boston College and earned a Ph.D. four years later from the University of Notre Dame. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Kaczor is a former Federal Chancellor Fellow at the University of Cologne and William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is an award winning author of twelve books including The Gospel of Happiness, The Seven Big Myths about Marriage, A Defense of Dignity, The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church, The Ethics of Abortion, Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues; Life IssuesMedical Choices; Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love; The Edge of Life, and Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition. Dr. Kaczor’s views have been in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, National Review, NPR, BBC, EWTN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, TEDx, and The Today Show.

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0:00.0	Today I am talking to you about love and friendship and heavenly happiness.
0:11.0	And I want to start off to talk when I was in college.
0:15.0	So when I was in college, senior year, I remember the whole world seemed like a limitless ocean of possibilities.
0:23.6	You know, I was thinking about going to graduate school. I wasn't exactly sure what, you know,
0:27.1	what to go into. I was a college athlete. I ran track and cross country for Boston College.
0:32.5	And I had all these friends. And it just, life seemed just, you know, kind of amazing. And I'm sure it does
0:37.4	for you
0:37.7	too think about all the things you could do and all the possibilities in your life and things like
0:41.4	that and all that seemed to come to an end with one phone call in fact with one sentence consisting of
0:53.1	only two words I got a call for my girlfriend and she
0:58.4	said two words to me. She said, I'm pregnant. I was completely stunned. I thought, I don't even
1:10.3	know what I'm going to do. This is not what I plan.
1:13.3	This is, it wasn't what I envisioned. And I was thinking of graduate school and all this stuff.
1:17.9	So I did what I did. And I still do sometimes when I'm really upset. I put on my running shoes.
1:23.9	And I went out into the cold Boston night. And I ran pretty much as hard as I could for maybe eight or nine miles. And I went out into the cold Boston night and I ran pretty much as hard as I could for maybe eight or nine miles and I yelled at the sky and
1:34.3	It was not a good situation. Well, I calmed down a little bit and
1:39.3	You know moved into the second stage that I was in and that that was pouting, being upset about the whole thing
1:47.5	and how could this happen and I can't believe it and this and that and this and that. And I'd like to
1:52.0	tell you that, you know, as a pregnancy developed and, you know, that I was like, you know, coming out
1:59.1	of it and moving in the right direction. And I was to a degree.
2:01.6	But even when my wife was in labor, I was like, oh, God, I can't believe, you know, you know, snap out of this.
2:07.6	Now, men, when your wife's in labor, do not tell her to snap out of it.
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