HUNGER FOR TRUTH ON CAMPUS:
FATHER DOMINIC LEGGE ON THE POWER OF THE CHRISTIAN
TRADITION TO ANSWER CONTEMPORARY QUESTIONS
By Matthew Kirby, Assistant Director of Communications, Dominican Friars Foundation
Writing in The American Conservative,
author Rod Dreher had this to say about
our own Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., who
had been invited to Notre Dame to give a
faculty seminar on Dreher’s recent book,
The Benedict Option:
“I sat at a table and listened to a
conversation
between
[an]
atheist
and a visiting Dominican priest. It was
deep and substantive. The Dominican—
Father Dominic Legge of the Dominican
House of Studies in Washington, D.C.—took
the student’s questions seriously, and gave
him answers. It was thrilling, to be honest.”
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Fr. Legge notes that “among the things
the students at Notre Dame were asking
me about were questions about how to
reconcile contemporary neuroscience
with some understanding of the human
soul. And of course, on that question the
Thomistic tradition has a whole lot to say.”
According to Fr. Legge, the great thinkers
of the Christian tradition are increasingly
unknown on secular campuses, “yet often,
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., speaking at the
Thomistic Institute philosophy conference in
Newburgh, New York. Photo by Peter Blair.