Town Council candidate and art advisor talk religion, identity and politics

What number is that?

Uh, five.

Five.

Okay.

Sure.

Um, pretty massive.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, actually just as I was speaking again, um, a very, very Catholic family.

Um, I mean, we would study apologetics.

I used to be able to read and write Latin, um, way back in the day.

So, uh, church every week, um, and during many times of my life every day.

Um, so I think that kinda steered me towards the start of politics.

Um, when we did that, you know, we studied, you know, teachings of Thomas Aquinas.

We would learn, um, again, with apologetics is you learn how to argue your stance or your beliefs.

And, uh, the-- a big role of the Catholic Church is faith and reason.

Um, it was nice to fall back on both of those, you know.

Um, to have reason with your beliefs, um, is, is paramount in my opinion, but there are certain things that you'll just never be able to answer.

So having that faith to rely on is good at times, too.

Um, you know, Catholicism is to, to know and love one another, um, in the end.

You know, we follow that very basic thing is to know everybody and to love everybody, um, and to know and love and serve God, and that is how we were raised.

So follow the Ten Commandments, you know, very, again, strict on that.

Um, and I think that's kind of what shaped how you can, how you can love everybody.

So, um, not always easy.

Hmm.

Yeah.