Moral Limbo in the Workplace: How Low Can I Go? | Father Thomas More Garrett, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 16th, 2023, at the NYC Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. Thomas More Garrett, O.P., made solemn profession in the Order of Preachers in 2012 and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Charles Brown, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, on May 22, 2015, in Washington, DC. Before entering the Dominicans he practiced law and worked as a Congressional staffer. In private practice, his work focused on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and market regulatory compliance. Fr. Thomas More received his JD in 2000 from The Pennsylvania State University School of Law, where he was the recipient of the school’s presidential scholarship and editor-in-chief of its law review. He received his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC in 2015. During his time in priestly formation, Fr. Thomas More worked in the General Counsel’s Office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and as an assistant to the chaplain of the US House of Representatives. His recent scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, the Journal of Church and State and the Review of Social Economy. Fr. Thomas More currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he serves as Associate Vice President/Associate General Counsel of Providence College.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.0	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.0	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.4	to mystic institute.org. Let's start with a prayer now. In the name of the Father, the Son,
0:29.3	the Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus Christ, please be with us this evening that we may hear your call
0:36.9	in our lives and we may see the guidance you give
0:39.3	each of us as we deal and navigate with all the difficulties of this world and lead us please
0:44.9	to eternal life together in heaven the name the father the son the holy spirit i just um i just got in from chicago about two hours or so ago, and probably like most of you, I use Uber
1:02.0	and Lyft to get from place to place. And sometimes when there's a driver who seems like he wants to tell you a story, it's worth asking.
1:13.6	So in Chicago, apparently this Uber and Lyft driver got a call toward a ride and he's
1:21.6	driving toward the place and traffic is picking up and he's seeing sirens ahead of him.
1:32.9	And it looks as though there's an accident just not far ahead.
1:40.8	And he's worried that he can't get through the accident to where he's been called to arrive.
1:47.5	So as he's approaching, a guy comes up and he's sort of limping toward him, and he can see that he's not far from the accident at this point.
1:49.9	There's sirens and police up there, and a guy limps up, and he holds up his phone
1:56.1	to indicate that he's the person to call for the ride, but I'm sure that most of us
2:00.7	have done. The guy gets in the back of call for the ride, that I'm sure that most of us have done.
2:01.9	Guy gets in the back of the Uber and says, are you, you know, so-and-so fix up, he says, yeah.
2:08.9	And he says, what happened up above there?
2:13.7	He said, oh, I was on a bicycle.
2:16.8	I just got hit.
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