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Why the Church Has Priests

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents a lecture by Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) titled “Why the Church Has Priests.”

Saturday, Oct. 23

Gregory Hall 100 | 810 S Wright St Urbana, IL 61801

3:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker

Fr. Dominic Langevin is vice president and dean of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He is also an assistant professor of systematic theology and is editor-in-chief of the journal The Thomist. He specializes in sacramental theology. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale University and his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, serving the University of Virginia.

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