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Fr. Damian Ference is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland and is a doctoral student inphilosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy.
Fr. Ference graduated from Borromeo Seminary/John Carroll University in 1998, and after earning his M.A. and M.Div. from Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology he was ordained for the diocese of Cleveland in 2003.

He served as parochial vicar at St. Mary Parish in Hudson, Ohio from 2003-2007. In 2009 he earned his licentiate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Ference has been part of the formation faculty at Borromeo Seminary since 2009.

In addition to writing for Word on Fire, Fr. Ference has published articles in a wide variety o ...more

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“Augustine found that Christian faith actually broadened his reason, it did not destroy it. For the first half of his life, Augustine had fallen in love with creation and hoped that honor, knowledge, sexual intimacy, and even friendship would satisfy his desires, but as he tells us, his heart remained restless. He found that rest only when his life was first ordered to the Creator.”
― Damian Ference, The Strangeness of Truth: Vibrant Faith in a Dark World
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“embodied words speak louder than abstract ones.”
― Damien Ference Ference, The Strangeness of Truth: Vibrant Faith in a Dark World
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“It’s not that words aren’t important, for truly they are. It’s that actions speak louder than words or, better yet, embodied words speak louder than abstract ones.”
― Damian Ference, The Strangeness of Truth: Vibrant Faith in a Dark World
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