Hello, and welcome to Catagance's Live. I'm Psy Killett, your host. Thanks for being with us on this Wednesday afternoon. We've got a very fine Wednesday show for you.

Ask a priest, both hours and our chaplain. Father Sam Keys is our guest. If you have a question that's appropriate for a Catholic priest, whether you're Catholic or not, you're welcome to call 888-318-7884-318-7884. So you can ask all the usual, maybe theological or apologetic questions.

But you might add to that some things of a more pastoral nature, maybe a marital question, a prayer question, a family question, sacraments, all those things. Whatever it would be an appropriate question to ask a priest. 888-318-7884, as I said by the Sam Keys, is the chaplain at Catholic Answers. Father, thanks for being with us.

It's great to be here.

Last time you were on, I said, I'm tired of explaining your situation every time you're on. And then I got an email from a woman who said, how can you have a priest on who has five children and not explain that on the air?

So you can't win. I don't want to have to do that every time, but Father is a former Anglican priest who came into the church in the married state and has five children.

That's right. That's that's pretty straightforward and simple. I got a dispensation, right? I didn't do it illegally, right?

Not with my bishop. My bishop got the dispensation from Pope Francis to do it. So it's all it's all in good order.

Yeah, good. And now every time we come back from a break, we need to explain that again, because I do not want.

You should record like pre-records and it could be really polished much better.

Oh, you didn't think that was polished right? No, no, that's terrible. I was sitting on myself. No.

Yeah, well, we could do that. We could we could do a little our guest today is Father Sam Keys. He's married.

Why? Well, you know, I was thinking when you were saying about calling with questions appropriate for a Catholic priest, you know, we could probably do a whole show on things that are not appropriate to ask a Catholic priest.

Well, the thing is, even when you say questions appropriate for Catholic priest, you get something that are not appropriate.

That's true. Ask Darren sometime about the one that Cardinal Pell got years ago. No, I'm not going to say it on there.

But yes, you will get you will get inappropriate questions. Father, don't worry about that.

Yeah, well, I don't mean like you know, appropriate for the radio, but just, you know, sometimes see priest get questions and I talk about this.

I mean, this is for real life, not just on, you know, Catholic cancer's live, but sometimes, you know, we don't have the we don't have all the answers.

Obviously, neither do the, do the apologists, but, you know, there are some things that being a priest does not, I can't, I can't help you, you know, fix your plumbing, you know, I can't help you not make your roof leak, things like that.

I can help you with that. Use packs if you got to fix the plumbing. That stuff is so good.

Yeah, right?

I'm, you know, being a homeowner, I have learned a lot of skills in the last few years that I never anticipated learning and that I definitely did not learn in seminary.

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