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Not that he was thinking of Descartes back when, as a high school senior, he decided to come to Thomas Aquinas College. “I did not go to the College for the intellectual life,” Fr. Busch admits. The second of three sons, he grew up attending public schools in Tallahassee, where Catholics make up just 4 percent of the population. He spent much of his teenage years debating religion with his non-Catholic friends, defending the existence of God and the divinity of Christ, and disputing charges about the Crusades and the Inquisition. (“I was usually on the defensive,” he remembers.)