132 – FR. MIKE SCHMITZ | Being Available And Capable

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode, we interview Father Mike Schmitz. Father Mike is the director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, and chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In this episode, we talk about modern manhood, manly virtue, the real meaning of “meekness,” how porn keeps us from serving God, the Catholic Church sexual abuse problem, his thoughts on Donald Trump, whether he would allow Joe Biden to take Communion, if it is a sin to have same-sex attraction, whether you can be Catholic AND support abortion, and a whole lot more! Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links: https://www.undaunted.life/podcast/mikeschmitz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to see. This is on Daunted Life a Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:23.4	All right guys today we've got a special interview and this is with Father Mike Schmitz.
0:27.3	Okay, so you might be thinking to yourself, well you've never had a Catholic
0:29.8	priest on the podcast before but I just got to tell you guys I really enjoyed this
0:33.4	conversation I was really looking forward to it and I'll give you a little bit
0:36.4	more information as to why that is but first let me just kind of read a little bit
0:39.3	about his bio so you can get a little idea of who he is. Father Mike Schmitz is the director of youth and
0:44.0	young adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, the chaplain for the Newman Center at the
0:48.7	University of Minnesota Duluth. He was ordained a priest in 2003 after attending the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas.
0:57.0	Father Mike provides podcast of his weekly homilies on iTunes and Bulldog Catholic.com.
1:02.0	He also appears in programs targeted toward
1:04.2	youth and young adults for Ascension Press as well as a regular short as regular
1:08.5	short videos on Ascension Presents. He's got a lot of stuff on YouTube guys. He does a lot of things, but this is kind of how I got introduced to him. Okay, so just kind of set the context. This is at the end of 2019. So I had already recorded my best podcast of the year, you know, podcast episode.
1:24.5	I'd kind of already done all of that. But then I had a buddy of my name James, he sent me some
1:29.4	some podcast information and different things like that. But one thing that he did is he sent me
1:32.8	the U. M. D. Newman Catholic campus ministry podcast for the 22nd of December of
1:38.4	2019 and it was called available and capable and you know this is a buddy of mine he's Catholic I'm Protestant
1:44.3	but we'll share some stuff back and forth sometimes but it's I just wasn't
1:47.8	expecting this from him and I was like he's like dude I really think you'll dig
1:51.4	this so so give it a try I mean the
1:53.4	podcast was 25 minutes long or something like that so it's like yeah sure I'll
1:56.7	listen to it and so I turned it on and nothing grabbed me initially right
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