Priest · Author · Professor
Father William J. Slattery, PhD
Chaplain to Damascus. Adjunct professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Author of Heroism and Genius, The Logic of Truth and Enchanted by Eternity.
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Weaponize Your Past
Turn Your Deepest Wounds into Your Greatest Mission
His newest book, Weaponize Your Past: Turn Your Deepest Wounds into Your Greatest Mission, will be published in the coming months.
About
Fr. William J. Slattery, PhD, was ordained by Pope St. John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica. Today he is chaplain to Damascus, one of the largest Catholic camp and retreat organizations in the country — 50,000 young people come through its camps and retreats each year — which means he spends most of his life in front of the generation he writes for. A priest of the Diocese of Columbus and adjunct professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, he holds a doctorate in epistemology: the science of how the mind grips reality and tells truth from illusion — which is why artificial-intelligence scientists in Silicon Valley sit down one-on-one with him, carrying questions the digital world cannot answer. Born on the Celtic Sea in Ireland, he speaks French, Spanish, and Italian and is the author of Heroism and Genius (published in France as Comment les catholiques ont bâti une civilisation), The Logic of Truth, and Enchanted by Eternity (foreword by Mark Wahlberg).
His newest book, Weaponize Your Past: Turn Your Deepest Wounds into Your Greatest Mission, will be published in the coming months.
Books
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Enchanted by Eternity
Recapturing the Wonder of the Catholic Worldview
How Catholicism proposes an enchanted and enchanting view of self, nature, society and the future.
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Heroism and Genius
How Catholic Priests Helped Build—and Can Help Rebuild—Western Civilization
Vibrant descriptions of how Catholicism forged the personalities of the men who shaped Western culture and why it has the power to do so again in you whether you are priest or lay person.
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Comment les catholiques ont bâti une civilisation
The French edition of Heroism and Genius.
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The Logic of Truth
St. Thomas Aquinas's Epistemology and Antonio Livi's Alethic Logic
A philosophical answer to relativism, reading Livi's alethic logic through the realism of Aquinas. For specialists in epistemology.
Homilies
Damascus, Pentecost 2026
On Heroism and Genius
1 min
July 2019 · 28 min
October 2018 · 54 min
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5 min
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11 min
The Society of Ignatians
Father William J. Slattery is founding the Society of Ignatians in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio.