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Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP was raised in Phoenix, AZ where he attended Brophy College Preparatory. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a double major in English and Philosophy. From there, he went to law school at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his Juris Doctor. Upon graduation, he worked for three years in the Corporate and Securities practice of Sidley & Austin, a large international law firm based in Chicago. Upon reflection and discernment, he left the practice of law to enter religious life. He entered the novitiate for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2002, where he took the religious name "Pius", after Pope St. Pius V, one of the four Popes who were first Dominicans. As part of his initial formation, Fr. Pius studied for the License in Sacred Theology. His thesis was on St. Thomas Aquinas's account of Knowledge and Love in understanding the persons of the Trinity. Fr. Pius was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 2008 and served at the parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, OH. In 2010, Fr. Pius was appointed by President Barack Obama to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. Fr. Pius is currently in studies pursuing a degree in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum).
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Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, O.P., a Dominican Priest of the Province of the Most Holy Name, recently appeared as a guest on the EWTN program Sunday Night Prime with Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR. Fr. Kromholtz, O.P., is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. He completed his doctoral studies in theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2008. During the show, Fr. Krumholtz speaks on "The Last Day" -- the promised day of resurrection of all the dead. Fr. Krumholtz has also written a book on the subject, On the Last Day - The Time of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Thomas Aquinas.
From the publisher's description of the book: "When will the resurrection of the dead occur? Over the past several decades, some theologians have called for a reconsideration of what had become the traditional response to this question, that the resurrection would occur "on the last day" (John 6:40), at the end of the world. They propose instead that the time of the resurrection be identified with the individual's moment of death ("resurrection in death"). However, St. Thomas Aquinas consistently taught that the resurrection will occur when Christ returns at the end of the world, for everyone at the same time. In this, Thomas highlights the theological significance of human persons' connections with Jesus Christ, with the created world, and with one another. In On the Last Day Bryan Kromholtz explains how Thomas's attention to these three dimensions (Christ, cosmos, and community) anticipates many current concerns and can contribute to a better understanding of resurrection for today, one that more fully accounts for the Christological, corporeal, cosmological, and ecclesiological aspects of eschatology."