Dr Dubroy

## Dr. Matthew DuBroy

### Dr. Matthew James DuBroy

> Dr. DuBroy, a father of five, has founded the Thomistic Institute for Ongoing Formation in order to educate both laity and priests in the rich tradition of the Church’s philosophy and theology. Dr. DuBroy received his B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville in philosophy after spending two years at Borromeo Seminary in Cleveland. Next, he earned a master’s degree in theology (S.T.M.) from the International Theological Institute in Austria and a License in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. Finally, he earned a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) from the Dominican House of Studies.
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> Dr. DuBroy is the dean of religious formation at Padre Pio Academy in Lakewood, OH, where he also teaches theology and Latin. He serves as the vice-chair of the Cleveland chapter of Una Voce which works, in union with Rome, toward the promotion and support of the traditional Latin Mass within the Church.
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> Dr. DuBroy has also published in the English Edition of Nova et Vetera, a journal of theology and is an affiliate member of the Sacra Doctrina Project. The Sacra Doctrina Project is devoted to the study of theology as a scientia which is ordered toward the contemplation of the divine nature and the relation of all creation to God.
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### Notable Student Relations

* **Brendan Schmidt**: for the first two years of his high school experience at PPA, but more notably his freshman year, Brendan Schmidt was picked on and belittled by Dr. Matthew DuBroy. This included lines such as, “Brendan, pay attention” after Brendan took his eyes of his theology book or Latin text for merely a few seconds, and “come on man, grow up” when his authority on matters unrelated to his class, rules regarding tardiness, and general opinions were brought into question. This, contrasted with DuBroy’s inability or unwillingness to reprimand Gideon Fry for far more henious actions, such as sleeping during Latin class, or challenging him in Theology, led to strained relations for Brendan’s first two years of high school. Now, however, although Brendan is still not terribly fond of him, DuBroy has lightened up on his ridicule and reprimands, seeing as Brendan is one of the only not entirely braindead students still remaining at the school.
* **Kateri Peralta:** Kateri has had a rocky relationship with DuBroy, starting with her initial displeasure of his tardiness policies, being that no matter what, if you were even a minute late to class, there would be points docked from your score for the day. As many others also found out the hard way, going from the laxness of Mr. Patrick Andrews class to the intensity of the high school can often be difficult, especially when faced with a man like DuBroy. Along with Ava Bonfili, Adrienne Boryczewski, Sarah Andrews, and Peter Amiot, Kateri lost many points due to tardiness across the first quarter of DuBroy's class in the 2022 school year, leading to a lower than deserved grade. Along with these tensions, Kateri would often question the validity of the Thomas Aquinas texts provided by DuBroy, as well as arguing with him over trivial matters, such as the Lying Incident and the Rock and Roll Incident. This would result in intellectual bullying of a sort, with DuBroy giving vague and badly formulated answers that relied on principles he would declare true, as well as sometimes faulty logic on the philosophy major's part. Although not much more is known, Kateri has remained one of the most competent theology class participants, and has been able to scrape through with relatively little damage to her academic record.
* **Gideon Fry** **+ Joe Fry**: Gideon and Joe were, in their time, arguably the two most competent theology students at the school, as well as being well regarded by DuBroy in his Latin class. Despite their callous attitude towards the classes, their unwillingness to do work in a timely manner, and the occasional snoozing during Latin by Gideon, they both passed with grades disproportionate to the amount of work put in, especially when considering that other students were getting lower scores while trying much harder. Not much else can be said about these two, since they both only attended the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years. DuBroy ended up telling Gideon that he would go to hell if he did not change the way he treats others. This would later be known as the "Hat Incident"
* **Sarah Andrews**: Sarah gets cold easily. When she is in Latin class, she sits on the heater to warm herself up. Whenever this happens, Dr. DuBroy get very upset and yells at her to sit in her chair. More recently, Sarah was expressing the fact that she is going to be an adult by saying she is going to be legal. Dr. DuBroy took this as an opportunity to be creepy. He asked her what she would be legal for. This could be seen as Dr. DuBroy being ignorant to what this sounds like, or it could mean that he is an extreme pervert.