What the 1960's Did to the Catholic Church & Why the Tide Is Finally Turning (Fr. Perricone) | Ep. 574
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:50.2 | I don't mean to start off this interview on a Debbie Downer Note. |
| 0:53.2 | You're joining the seminary and becoming ordained while thousands of men are leaving the priesthood. What was it like? Oh, I could spend forever on that. Let's do it. It was an alarming period. Could you give me an example of a heresy taught in the classroom?, my God. Well, Jesus Christ is not God. |
| 1:12.6 | No. |
| 1:13.6 | The seminary faculty decided that they had to begin |
| 1:16.6 | weeding out any candidates who were showing any kind of partiality |
| 1:20.6 | to the Roman Catholic Church as it existed before 1970. |
| 1:24.6 | So they adopted the communist method in the Soviet Union. And two days before ordination, |
| 1:31.0 | I was called to the director's office and told I wasn't going to be ordained. Two days. Whoa. |
| 1:36.6 | You had breakfast with Mother Teresa? I could remember once. I said, |
| 1:42.1 | Mother, you've been in the worst sectors of the world imaginable. |
| 1:47.0 | Tell me, of all the things you've seen, what is the worst evil you've come across? |
| 1:53.0 | She looked at me without missing a beat, Matt. |
| 1:55.0 | She said, Wow. So, Father Perricone, you joined seminary in 1970. Is that correct? |
| 2:11.4 | That's correct. Actually, that would have been major seminary, Matt. I entered in 1968. |
| 2:22.1 | In what those days was called the divinity school. That would be men who would have gone to college but knew they had a vocation |
| 2:27.6 | with the priesthood. So they were settled into this two-year program where they would do |
| 2:34.0 | accelerated Latin and Greek. And then after that |
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