#12083 Ask a Priest - Fr. Paul Keller O.P.

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 05:50 – Is killing an intrinsically evil act? 16:43 – Can a Catholic date a divorced person that was not married in the Catholic Church? 20:54 – I’m Catholic and was just married in a non-denominational church. Is my marriage valid? If not, how do I make it valid? 23:48 – If a person discovered that their partner was homosexual, would it be an impediment to receiving an annulment? 30:35 – How can the Church claim that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church? 36:09 – I was asked by my pastor to no longer kneel for communion. What advice do you have for me? 45:43 – Why did God appear so cruel, angry and petty in the Old Testament? 50:51 – I had candles blessed during Candlemas. If the holy water didn’t touch my candle, is it still blessed? 52:16 – How can I learn to love God when my fear for him is much bigger? …

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0:32.5	I'm Cy Kellett, your host.
0:34.4	Ask a priest first hour, second hour, ask anything you want. Basically the same thing.
0:39.0	It's just the guy you're asking the first hour is a priest. Second hour, we will, as I said,
0:45.1	you can ask anything you want. Jim Blackburn will be here. First hour, our good friend.
0:49.7	And sometimes traveling companion, Father Paul Jerome Keller is here. If you've got a question that you'd like to ask a Catholic priest, whether you are Catholic or not,
0:58.7	he is allowed to talk to non-Catholics.
1:00.8	So he's allowed to talk to non-Christians.
1:02.4	If you got a question that you would like to ask him, 888-3187-884, Father Paul Jerome Keller is the director of the Office of Divine Worship in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio.
1:12.9	Thank you very much for being here with us, Father.
1:15.7	Glad to be here. I'm also a Dominican, if that helps anybody, if they want to talk to a Dominican priest.
1:21.9	Not Dominican as in from the Dominican Republic, but Dominican as in the Order of Preachers. A lot of people get that. They think I'm a Dominican, like, from the Dominican Republic, but Dominican as in the order of preachers.
1:28.7	A lot of people get that.
1:29.7	They think I'm a Dominican, like, from the country.
1:32.1	Oh, I can totally see that.
1:33.3	I mean, if they don't know, as a matter of fact, I know a lot of people who have no idea
1:37.7	of how this whole Catholic order priest thing works.
1:41.9	They just don't get, like you go Jesuit.
1:43.6	They go, what's a
1:44.5	Jesuit? And you go, well, it's almost like a Catholic, but no, sorry, I'm just kidding. I apologize.
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