Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine.

Welcome back to the Tomistic Institute podcast for another installment of off-campus conversations.

And as is sometimes our custom, we don't venture too far afield.

So as it happens, today I'm in the same building as the individual whom I am interviewing.

So it's a delight to be joined by Father James, Dominic Brent.

Thanks for joining off-campus conversations.

Great to be here with you.

All right.

So Father James, you hail from the great state of Michigan.

You did some studies at Wayne State University at St. Louis University, and you obtained your PhD there in philosophy under the tutelage of Professor Eleanor Stump. And you've been teaching here at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception for about a decade, a little over a decade.

Folks might know you from a book that you recently published, Father's House, academic publications of various sorts.

And then you've just been super generous with Thomistic Institute lectures and conferences and retreats here, there, everywhere.

And now you have a podcast called Contemplata,

a podcast for Contemplative Souls, which folks can find wherever they consume their podcasts.

But maybe, I don't know, by way of alternative introduction, what are some things that you're

cooking up here in the last couple of months or the last couple of years that you're excited about, whether things I mentioned or other things besides?

Well, one of the things I've been working on the most is studying the wisdom of John Paul

the second. I had a course at the house last semester called the Philosophy of Carol Witawa.

That's a project I've been working on off and on for a long time now, ever since I was in graduate school, really, when I was first introduced to his writings.

And as the years have gone on, I've learned more philosophy and have learned how to read and understand very different kind of philosopher that you find in Caravois,

different in kind from what you standardly have in the English-speaking world.

And as the years have gone on, and I've sort of been able to see what he's up to more and more,

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