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About Fr. Thomas Loya
Fr. Thomas Loya is pastor of Annunciation of the Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Parish in Homer Glen, Illinois. He is also the host of “Light of the East,” a radio show that can be heard across the United States on several Catholic radio networks.
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Married priesthood, celibacy, and the Amazon Synod: An Eastern Catholic priest’s perspective

August 21, 2019 Fr. Thomas Loya 71

I am an Eastern Rite Catholic priest of the Byzantine Rite of the Ruthenian jurisdiction. While I myself am a celibate priest, I come from a long line of married Byzantine Catholic priests on both […]

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Seeing sacramentally in a pornified culture

July 9, 2019 Fr. Thomas Loya 18

For several years of my life, for several days a week, for several hours a day, I would look at people posing completely naked right in front of me in every position imaginable. Some were […]

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