He has said it himself.

He clearly admires Aquinas a lot, however, is critical of scholastic "logic-chopping" as he calls it, and sympathetic to the mystical traditions.

[Here is a lecture he did on Aquinas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfn_wuO_mI&t=964s).

From what I understand, and correct me if I am wrong, Sugrue has Irish routes and the Irish are historically catholic.

What makes you say he is Catholic?  How does he come out on St. Thomas Aquinas?

Sugrue has described himself as a Catholic Platonist--and from my engagement, with his content, I would say his favourite philosopher is Plato.

He seems convinced that there is a logical order to the universe at the most basic level--that though there are no easy or scientifically precise answers to moral questions, there is right and wrong in moral matters.

In different places, he expresses admiration for consequential utilitarian ethics as the proper way of reasoning about moral decisions on a day to day basis, but for Kantian deontological ethics in setting certain thresholds or lines that ought never to be crossed in moral action. Further, he seems to borrow Aristotle's idea that frenesis (good judgement), developed through practical experience and habit rather than through theoretical reasoning, is important and necessary for figuring out right from wrong in action.

He often quotes Aristotle in saying something to the effect of: It is a mark of an educated mind not to ask for m

In what does Michael Sugrue believe? is he Christian? What is his favorite philosopher/philosophy?