Freedom Beyond Civility | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given by Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (Dominican House of Studies) at Hillsdale College on 4 November 2019.

A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the common good. In addition to his teaching, Fr. Guilbeau serves as senior editor of Aleteia.org (English edition). He is also the current prior of the Dominican House of Studies.

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0:00.0	So my topic this evening, as was said, is freedom beyond civility, providing the better answers to today's
0:08.0	to today's social questions.
0:12.0	Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the Western world had entered only a few years into the sexual revolution.
0:24.6	Its consequences were not yet certain. Although there were prophets in the 1960s who raised their
0:32.0	voices in warning over what the sexual revolution would bring, Pope St. Paul the Sixth was one of them.
0:39.3	Few foresaw the social and political turmoil that the revolution would create far into the future.
0:47.3	Just 50 years later, we can review the revolution's history with some clarity.
0:55.0	The results have not been good.
0:58.0	Society continues to wrestle with confusion not only over sex,
1:03.0	but also, in consequence,
1:07.0	it wrestles with questions of the dignity of human life and the sanctity and permanence of marriage.
1:13.6	The revolution's commodification and manipulation of sex on an industrial scale has led ineluctively to the commodification and manipulation of persons,
1:26.6	resulting tragically in today's throwaway culture, condemned by Pope Francis.
1:34.6	And that's not all.
1:37.5	Weeds of the revolution continue to sprout.
1:41.0	Recently, the nature of gender has emerged as yet another revolution-fueled source of unease
1:49.0	and uncertainty.
1:53.0	According to its promoters, the popular displacement of sex for marriage was supposed to liberate
1:59.0	man and woman to enjoy each other with greater confidence and freedom.
2:05.0	Instead, men and women today find themselves further alienated from each other
2:09.7	than we can remember.
2:12.7	Just think of the Me Too movement.
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