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Thomisticinstitute.org. Our next speaker, Dr. John Grabowski, is ordinary professor of

moral theology at Catholic University of America, on whose faculty he has served since 1991.

He served two terms as a theological advisor to the United States Catholic Bishops Committee

on Laity, Marriage, Family, and Youth,

and was appointed by Pope Francis in 2015, I think,

to serve as an expert at the Synod of Bishops on the family.

He has a wonderful growing family himself himself and he's been a wonderful colleague

as well. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Grabowski. Thank you, Joe. As Dr. Capizzi mentioned,

I've been at my day job for a little while.

When I hear that date, 1991, a little voice in my head says,

that makes you sound really old.

But then I have other voices in my head.

Those of my adult children who will say helpful things like,

Dad, you are really old.

It's one of the benefits of being a father, right?

You have children who help you acquire that most important but always elusive virtue of

humility.

So I'm grateful to his eminence, Cardinal Willett, the Center of Research

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