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Suan Sonna

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Suan Sonna graduated with his BA in philosophy and political science from Kansas State University and is now pursuing an MTS at Harvard Divinity School in New Testament studies. Suan is a Baptist convert to Catholicism who runs the YouTube channel and podcast “Intellectual Catholicism.” He specializes in the biblical, historical, and philosophical case for the papacy and the Catholic Magisterium.

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