The Church Abandoned Aquinas. Now We're In Crisis. (Fr. Dominic Legge) | Ep. 533

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (PFIC) at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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0:00.0	Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith.
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0:14.7	The battle for souls is not only in the heart, it's also in the mind.
0:18.4	And truth, when people understand it, changes things. In the 20th
0:22.5	century, there was a very intentional move away from Aquinas to say, you know, hey, we got to do
0:26.8	something new. And I think that's produced kind of a crisis in Catholic education, in catechesis
0:31.3	and sacramental formation, a crisis in preaching. I would point out that Aquinas has been, like,
0:38.9	declared by the church to be the common doctor or the universal doctor, like sort of a reference point that is a really important
0:43.9	one that can be for the whole church. People are looking for something that has substance.
0:49.4	Yeah. They're also looking for something that is authentic. Yeah, when you don't dumb the faith down, intellectually or liturgically, that's when people start coming.
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1:17.8	we really appreciate it what is the weirdest question or most bizarre reaction you've had from
1:24.7	somebody who has saw you wearing that oh i, I was once, I did a wedding in
1:30.2	Manhattan Beach, California. And I was going to the rehearsal dinner. So I parked my car around the
1:36.3	corner from the restaurant. I was kind of walking down the block. And this surfer passed me.
1:41.8	I mean, there are real surfer dudes in Manhattan Beach. And he goes, dude,
1:47.0	awesome costume! And I said, well, actually I'm a Catholic priest and he was like, oh man,
1:54.0	I'm so sorry, so sorry. It was like really heartfelt. It was like very touching.
2:00.0	Yeah. Oh, that's good. So I feel like I get that It was like very touching. Yeah.
2:02.1	Oh, that's good.
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