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Godsplaining

Why Catholics Love Big Ideas: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Fr. Bonaventure and Fr. Gregory delve into Catholic history on this episode of Godsplaining. The friars describe the Church drawing Truth from ancient times, the earliest Church Fathers, what Protestants get wrong, and what Fr. Gregory's role is in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.  More on Aquinas 101: https://aquinas101.thomisticinstitute.org/  Send your questions for the friars to:godsplaining@opeast.org   Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsYour Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0

This is Father Bonameter Chapman.

0:07.0

And this is Father Gregory Pine.

0:08.4

And welcome to Godsplining.

0:09.6

Thanks for all of those who support us on Patreon.

0:12.5

If you'd like to join and give a monthly donation,

0:14.2

you can find news and notes on how to do that in the show notes or something.

0:19.0

Thanks to those who like and subscribe.

0:20.7

Please do so wherever you consume your podcasts.

0:25.1

Boom.

0:25.8

That was one of your better ones.

0:26.8

Getting there.

0:27.6

I was going to say wherever you podcast, you're podcasting, but I didn't.

0:32.2

Okay.

0:32.6

Did you like resist that temptation?

0:34.2

I did.

0:34.6

I resist it.

0:35.1

Well, because I got caught up in, I thought I had the first part, I had the first part settled, the, um, donating to Patreon, but I, I'm still, when you say Patreon initially, you have to say it again later, and it sounds problematic. You don't actually have to say it again later. Just donate again? Yeah. Yeah, maybe so. Welcome to Godsplining. Thanks to all those who support us.

0:55.5

If you enjoy the show, please consider making a monthly donation on Patreon. Well, that's the same,

0:58.7

but I- First occurrence. Yeah. Last occurrence. That's the thing. I see once I said thanks for all those

1:02.7

support on Patreon and then you're done. See, then there's no way out. Like you can't say like-

1:07.1

If you want to donate to the podcast, so find yourself a means there for maybe look earlier

1:12.9

you know that kind of thing yeah so that's my that's my that's my don't it to the podcast set up a

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