The Early Church Fathers SOLVE Modern Controversies.

Let Me Be Frank | Bishop Frank Caggiano’s Podcast | Diocese of Bridgeport, CT · Nov 5, 2026 · 57m

Are the Church Fathers still relevant today? Bishop Frank Caggiano and co-host Steve Lee welcome back author Mike Aquilina to talk about his new book, The Church Fathers for Our Time (Emmaus Road Publishing), and why the wisdom of the early Church speaks so directly to the 21st century.

The problems we think are new, Mike explains, were already present in the Roman world, and the Fathers largely settled them by winning the hearts and minds of a skeptical, often hostile culture. He shows how ideas we take for granted, like universal human dignity, victims’ rights and ethics in warfare, entered…